Skunked Words
Word Matters
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I Love the Term Skunked
The authority of that antiquity seems to hold people criticise the use of literally the word literally in its figurative sense. And yet there are so many other words that are used in that way to convey meaningless intensity to a sentence without adding meaning. It's interesting me, and i love this term, skunked. I think it's useful for exactly identifying this kind of thing.
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