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minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·9 months agoYou don’t need the “literally”. You can just say delusional.
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minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months 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.
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minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months 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.
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minus-squareHACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down5·9 months agothis pedantic bullshit isn’t worth your time. don’t let them distract you from important work.
minus-squareDeepGradientAscent@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoPedantry isn’t important!?
You don’t need the “literally”. You can just say delusional.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, it is.
this pedantic bullshit isn’t worth your time. don’t let them distract you from important work.
Pedantry isn’t important!?