Day Ten, April Tenth

When people say "literally" and don't mean it at all. The word "literally" was designed to explain that something is exactly true. Sometimes, you hear people using it connected with ridiculous hyperboles, which is a completely wrong way to use the word, as it means pretty much the opposite of how it is being used. An example is if someone were to say "The school is literally 1000 years old" it is completely obvious that this is not true, yet the word "literally" is used. There are other ways that the same sentence could be said, for example, "The school is probably 1000 years old" or simply "The school is 1000 years old." Both of those phrases are just as effective, and correct. It's almost as people don't know what the word really means.