Basic Instructions by Scott Meyer for January 17, 2014

I literally get annoyed when people use “literally” too often.

Litter. Really.

You have a problem with gerunding?

OK, so today I learned this and SUBJUNCTIVE.

http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest#.Utk7m7TDv6Q

If you’re speaking it instead of writing it, it’s not literally “literally”. People use “literally” illiterately.

I am literally getting out of here.

I could care less.-Well, not really, but I thought it fit in.

I think he really did mean “literally” in the first sentence. He’s that arrogant.

And then there’s “decimate”. The “deci” part indicates 10%, not the total or nearly total destruction it is often used to indicate currently.