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A world of books - Een wereld van boeken.

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Paul Kater

Literally

I wonder about the word literally, and the way it's used lately. I literally did this on my laptop just now. (This person had created a drawing.) I asked in what other way than literally they might have done that, and the answer was: "What do you mean?" Asking if they'd ever heard of 'figuratively' got me no reaction any more. On Twitter, a while ago, I saw someone who wrote: "I literally died!" (Using twitter for iPhone.) There I…

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