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| A comment from the story on CNN. |
I had the pleasure of seeing a post on Facebook about a story that CNN was running on the book of Revalation. The article was informative and took a deeply scientific approach to the topic. The auther went into the history of the book and its author.
The most enlightening aspect of this article was not the content, however. The comments (as shown above) were what interested me the most. It's comments like the one above that completely destroy all credibility for the religious in the scientific community. Please keep in mind that this is just my opinion.
I have listed the link to the article and the comment (assuming it has not been removed) below. There are many other comments just like this one but you will be reading for a while since there were over 4,000 comments at the time of this writing.
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I'm aware of the necessity and naturality of the fluidity of language, but the current trend for people to so heinously misuse the term 'literally' so as to make its distinction from 'figuratively' (how they are actually using it) meaningless, makes me die a little inside at the prospect of losing meaning and further junking-up the language. I wonder if consistently calling people out on this usage will work. I see more intelligent people doing it to other 'standards' and the usual response is a blank expression, like if you try to correct someone's usage of 'ironic' by informing them that what they referred to is the opposite of irony.
I think the problem is that they need a word, but there isn't one for the way they want to use it, or (much more likely in most cases) they aren't aware of it or comfortable enough with a word. "How appropriate" would be an apropos replacement for misusing 'ironic' simply to comment on the state of something's sense-making, but it's not as specific a connotation as irony is, which is why I think people still try to use irony, because it's exactly what they are talking about, even if it's exactly the opposite meaning- it's still an exact opposite. That, and the regrettable fact that people are actually afraid of seeming too formal to the point where they feel uncomfortable using the necessary vocabulary to express what they actually mean.
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