American Crime Story : People didn't use "literally" like that back then.

Just sayin

Yea they did.

Yes. They did.


Less than forget. But more than begun.

Everybody thinks "literally" means "totally" or "practically". Like if you say

1. "I literally died"
2. "That movie was literally 500 hours long"
3. "She's literally 3 inches tall"

That is NOT what "literally" means! That word means "in a literal sense" or "actually". How come nobody knows how to use that word?

if by "everybody" you are really referring to totally retarded blonde white girls with a $900 iphone bought from one of their 7 boyfriends pill/weed dealing money and inner city black girls named lakeesha with a 900$ weave bought from one of their 7 boyfriends crackdealing money.

Language evolves

yes, we did.

Okay let me clarify a little.

Yeah, people have been using it in that way for a while but in about the last 5 years the trend of using "literally" before describing any situation has grown significantly. It's now more a word of emphasis than anything. In the show, they were using it the way someone would use it today, and it didn't help that most of the time they said, it was in a comical situation. I don't know, something about it didn't feel natural.

Great show. Looking forward to the next one. Just wanted to nitpick at this one a little.

What thew hell are you talking about this was back in 1994 that was not even long ago it was you can say yesterday only 22 years ago the man or woman who wrote that must be joking lol

I could swear there were a couple of programs with women who made a comedy routine out of saying "literally;" maybe "SNL" or "Madd TV!"

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