English Tourist Miraculously Gets Through Entire Sentence Without Saying “Literally”
- Randus Prox
- Jan 19, 2020
- 1 min read
“It’s hard because I love that word, and I lit... I really like it.”
English tourists are a strange bunch. They will often have an entirely different accent to one another simply because they grew up ten minutes away from each other.
They are also extremely fond of the word “literally”. To them, it is the most wonderful and versatile word in the English language.
It can be used literally. For example “I’m literally using the word ‘literally’ in this sentence.”
According to your standard Brit, it can also apparently be used as its own opposite. For example: “I literally jumped out of my skin.” That person presumeably remains well and truly physically within their own skin. But you certainly know what they mean.
The English have also discovered that it makes a pretty handy substitute for the word “um”.
For example “I literally....literally.... got literally wankered on the weekend.”
So it is somewhat of a modern-day marvel that British tourist Miles Roderick managed to literally utter an entire sentence without saying it.
“It was so hard I literally died” according to Mike.
Might have been a one-off.