People who say 'literally' when they mean 'actually'.

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Post by CaptHayfever » Fri May 27, 2011 5:02 am

People who say "never" when they mean "only in certain cases."

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

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Post by Ace Mercury » Fri May 27, 2011 8:42 am

Sentence fragment.

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Post by Antisocial » Fri May 27, 2011 8:45 am

How about...

People who commit an aposiopesis when talking to

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Post by Dux is not you » Fri May 27, 2011 10:10 am

I'm literally eating a sandwich right now.

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Post by Rainbow Dash » Fri May 27, 2011 2:31 pm

im figuratively eating a sandwich

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Post by Ace Mercury » Sat May 28, 2011 11:23 am

I hate it when science and engineering terms creep into the general population, and then they use it wrong.

What's that? Your performance increased by a quantum? You mean by the smallest possible discrete amount? And now you say you're orders of magnitude better than last time? Excuse me while I body check this cactus.

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Post by CaptHayfever » Sun May 29, 2011 1:27 am

^Bear in mind that when people who didn't pay attention in Physics or Chemistry hear the term "quantum leap", they almost invariably think of time travel, which (if true) would be really really impressive.

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Post by Deepfake » Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:43 pm

Rainbow Dash wrote:im figuratively eating a sandwich

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Post by Zaden » Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:36 pm

Being a nice guy, I'll give them one chance by correcting them. This is just to clarify whether or not they care. Sometimes they do care. But if they don't, I leave the room and never come back.

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Post by Vapor » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:53 pm

I'm illiterately trying to read this newspaper

and literally failing

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Post by Ace Mercury » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:39 pm

Ha ha, someone's reading a newspaper. Nice one.

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