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“Literally” is its own antonym! How can this be? | Ask MetaFilter

I hate this. We talk about improper usage a lot, especially how it is kind of exemplified by this usage pattern with ‘literally’.

Here’s some other good links I dug out of a third of the comments on the Ask.Mefi:

• the definition in question
• various usage discussions from alt.usage.english
• example contranyms
• or is it “auto-antonym (contronym)”?

My mouth hurts.

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Finally demystified for you, by Amazon.com of all places.

TVgasm - Food Network: She’s Watching…

This is kind of sad.

I went to the Oral Surgeon’s on Friday for a consultation prior to having my wisdom teeth extracted — something I should’ve done when I was 19, right? Wait, wait. That’s not the sad part.

I got to have my whole head bombarded with X-rays, because they wanted a panoramic radiograph to see what’s going on. This was pretty cool and futuristic, because the machine like clamped my head in place and then the ray-shooting part rotated perfectly around the sides of my face. Wait, wait. That’s not the sad part.

So then I went back to sit and read TIME magazine in the reception area while they developed the radiographs. That’s not the sad part either, but here it comes.

The nurse or whatever calls me to come back and see the dentist/surgeon guy, and I could swear on the way back to the room she was VERY MUCH flirting with me. All sparkly eyes, wagging her tail for me to follow her, even accidentally asking me TWICE with a slight squeal “How are youuuuuuuuu todayyyyyy?”

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And in other bodily news: [Japanese] researchers discover a new source of stem cells: human menstrual blood.

NB: if I have to explain why that first thing’s funny you’ll understand what a sick fuck I can be sometimes and I’m not sure I want that. Just do NOT do a Google image search for “prolapse” is all I’m saying… serious.

I used to rely on Wikipedia for long lists of the same kind of joke, like lightbulb jokes. They just get funnier when you read them in series.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia seems to be falling prey to itself, gobbling up treasures like the lightbulb joke page in fits of in-fighting about it’s own purpose.

Talk:Lightbulb joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This seems to happen to all the good internet things, doesn’t it? Who says there’s no place for jokes in an encyclopedia anyways? Did you ask librarians or encyclopedists?

Anyway, somebody let me know if it moves from this spot: Lollerpedia:Jokebook:Lightbulb, m’kay?

you find stuff like this on tinypic.com/new

that is all

Not sure where this came from, think it was an anonymously posted email forward:

"if you find yourself wondering: 'why did she choose me
out of all possible other guys to date?' there''s probably
a very good reason: it's HER, run like hell."
	
"there's usually a VERY definite reason highly attractive
women are single, and you'll probably not discover it until
it's WAY too late."
	
"the saying 'all the good ones are taken'? It is 115% true,
all the time, for all values of 'good' equivalent to 'not crazy'"

If one must clean one’s room every time there are monsters under the bed, pretty soon — voila! — no monsters.

— Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

…one of the good books I’m reading

Wired 14.03: Sky Dayton Gets Mobile

He stares at the device, glowing with electronic life. “All of your friends, in the palm of your hand.”

Neat article about how come mobile phone service in the US totally sucks and maybe one day it won’t suck as much because of a neat buisiness arrangement called an MNVO.

Makes me want to go to S.Korea wow!

Two overlapping market opportunities stood out in particular, says … SK Telecom’s global strategy chief: “The ultrahip crowd and the ultrageek crowd. That’s the target SK Telecom was dreaming of. I call it technosexual.”

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I wish I knew what a “гЛe НарkoТa” was…