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...Skip the shower on Sunday morning before you leave for that walk of shame; you’ll be saving water even if you’re not saving face. 2) Burn the midnight oil—literally??and do your calculus by candlelight. Accuse your TF of environmental insensitivity if he downgrades you for wax drips. 3) Unplug your “personal massager.” 4) Unplug your other “personal massager.” 5) Turn off the heat in all the rooms in your entryway and count how many days...
...Bites,” a program about vampires at Harvard, and “On Harvard Time,” a hybrid between a straightforward news broadcast and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”As a relatively young organization—(literally??it’s comprised largely of freshmen and sophomores), HRTV has high hopes for its future and the gap it hopes to fill on the Harvard campus.STRANGE BEDFELLOWS“HRTV and ‘Ivory Tower’ are important because there are so few outlets at Harvard...
...misuse of “literally?? is nothing new. But it’s not the misuse that leaves me confounded; instead, the overuse, the compulsive use, the far too common use–they are driving me crazy and making me wonder: Why such repetition...
It’s not just a trend in colloquialism. “Literally??has popped up in The Crimson too: A swimmer was noted to have been “literally riding the heels” of her teammate during a meet last week. I can’t even visualize this supposed occurrence, swim-cap and all. Another reporter, summarizing a medical study that showed how dangerous long medical shifts are, wrote, “A resident working a 30-hour shift might, by the end, quite literally be acting drunk.” Upsetting...
Despite this inefficacy, I fear that the excessive use of “literally?? may prove to be a permanent feature of our prose, since embellishment is certainly here to stay. But can’t we all make one small step toward conversational sanity? Take note of the Latin adage, Voluptates commendat rarior usus. It means “Moderation in all things,” literally...