Comments on: Catachresis of the Year http://girtby.net/archives/2004/12/20/catachresis-of-the-year/ this blog is girtby.net Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:44:34 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Matt Rubinstein http://girtby.net/archives/2004/12/20/catachresis-of-the-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 Matt Rubinstein Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:08:23 +0000 http://girtby.net/2007/08/08/catachresis-of-the-year#comment-1008 <p>No, there was obviously glue on the guns. Or chewing gum, which he'd stuck there because he needed to walk somewhere and couldn't do both at once.</p> <p>I wouldn't dignify that with catachresis, though—it's just a solecism, a misuse of "literally", which happens literally <strike>all the time</strike> quite often.</p> No, there was obviously glue on the guns. Or chewing gum, which he’d stuck there because he needed to walk somewhere and couldn’t do both at once.

I wouldn’t dignify that with catachresis, though—it’s just a solecism, a misuse of “literally”, which happens literally all the time quite often.

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