I envision Shakespeare doing triple Salchows in his grave hearing too many people literally use the word “literally” these days: “He literally just said that” or “That’s literally the point” or even better “you literally used the word literally wrong.” Mark Twain said “if you see an adverb, shoot it” (he’s doing quadruple Salchows to one-up Billy) and while I cannot espouse murder for any reason (unless one is literally defending oneself), I can agree with the premise because “literally” is literally used way too much. It’s the equivalent of verbal waterboarding by way of fingernail chalkboarding. As an alternative…
Author: Ed Ridgley
Ed Ridgley
Ed hiked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal in 2018, an asthmatic, thus completing number one on his bucket list. At 17,500 feet, he wondered if any of those “you can accomplish anything” self-help gurus had ever done anything like this. But base camp was as far as he wanted to go, that was enough. Then again, who knows what enough really means?