Our fathers had floods in the spring, and they inherited this custom from their fathers, and passed it on to us.

The word that bugs me is when people use 'literally' for something that is in fact figurative. "I literally died out there" for example for someone with stage fright.

No you didn't. Otherwise you'd be dead.

Do we really need another meaningless intensifier? Already we have "really" (which used to mean "in reality") and "truly" (which used to mean "in truth") being used for "a lot" or "to a great extent". Also incredibly, fabulously, unbelievably, etc. Every time one of these words gets abducted as a synonym for "quite a bit" we lose another useful word, and gain another useless intensifier.

STOP VERBICIDE NOW!

Alex
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