The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11381 Message #84676
Posted By: Peter Fisher
07-Jun-99 - 04:40 PM
Thread Name: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
Subject: RE: Misspoken, misheard, but accepted.
The word literally has now come to mean its exact opposite, figuratively, as when the newscaster this morning asserted that the Kosovar refugees were literally being baked by the heat.