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I forget where I saw it but the other day I noticed a portmanteau that pleases me: “Legiterally.”
The brilliance of this word is that legitimate, like literally, is often used for more for emphasis these days than in its literal sense, though the two aren’t always mutually exclusive; legiterally indicates that you’re deliberately indulging in rhetoric, i.e.:
“Sanderson, who is legiterally a NASA rocket scientist”
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“Sanderson, who is a NASA rocket scientist but my emphasis here, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is how crazy-dramatic it is that the guy in this example is a freakin’ NASA rocket scientist.”
The brilliance of this word is that legitimate, like literally, is often used for more for emphasis these days than in its literal sense, though the two aren’t always mutually exclusive; legiterally indicates that you’re deliberately indulging in rhetoric, i.e.:
“Sanderson, who is legiterally a NASA rocket scientist”
=
“Sanderson, who is a NASA rocket scientist but my emphasis here, and I cannot emphasize this enough, is how crazy-dramatic it is that the guy in this example is a freakin’ NASA rocket scientist.”
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Date: 2019-09-05 10:16 pm (UTC)From:I hadn't seen that, but it's clever!