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minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 years agoYou don’t need the “literally”. You can just say delusional.
minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoNo, you didn’t and don’t. Calling someone “delusional” isn’t a figure of speech; that adjective isn’t used figuratively, as a simile, or as a metaphor. It’s used in this context as a direct accusation, and its literal meaning is already implied.
minus-squarehelenslunch@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down7·edit-22 years agoNo I really did that adjective isn’t used figuratively Yes. It is. All the time.
minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years ago Yes. It is. All the time. Perhaps it is used figuratively frequently. You still didn’t need the word “literally”; the literal meaning of “delusional” is implied in your accusation already.
minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·2 years agothis pedantic bullshit isn’t worth your time. don’t let them distract you from important work.
minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoPedantry isn’t important!?
You don’t need the “literally”. You can just say delusional.
No I did.
No, you didn’t and don’t.
Calling someone “delusional” isn’t a figure of speech; that adjective isn’t used figuratively, as a simile, or as a metaphor. It’s used in this context as a direct accusation, and its literal meaning is already implied.
No I really did
Yes. It is. All the time.
Perhaps it is used figuratively frequently.
You still didn’t need the word “literally”; the literal meaning of “delusional” is implied in your accusation already.
Except it’s not.
Yes, it is.
this pedantic bullshit isn’t worth your time. don’t let them distract you from important work.
Pedantry isn’t important!?