Re: Driving Like There Was No Tomorrow (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)

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From: Josh Turner
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:00

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> Highway patrolmen said that the car literally painted itself onto
> the wall.

Pet peeve time: The car *did not* literally paint itself on the wall. It
*figuratively* painted itself on the wall. Why do people insist on using
the word literally when they really mean just the opposite? AFAIK, there
is no way that a car can actually "paint itself onto a wall", so the use
of the word "literally" here is completely inappropriate.

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From: Josh Turner <shua@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Driving Like There Was No Tomorrow (Was: Re: Aggressive Driving)
Date: 1998/07/18
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