Alain D D Williams (12024-05-14): > PS: check the dictionary definition of "literally".
I think you should have checked first that it makes the point you want to make and not the opposite: 2. (degree, figuratively, proscribed, contranym) Used non-literally as an intensifier for figurative statements: virtually, so to speak (often considered incorrect; see usage notes) 3. (colloquial) Used to intensify or dramatize non-figurative statements. 4. (colloquial) Used as a generic downtoner: just, merely. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally> 2. in effect : virtually—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally> * used to emphasize what you are saying: * simply or just: <https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literally> Regards, -- Nicolas George
