stop it! just stop it!

now this had been made fun of in several movies, tv shows, comic bits, etc. i know that most people with a working brain and ears have in some way been exposed to the proper usage and definition of the following word. there is no way in hell that a person over the age of, say, 18 has lived his or her entire life never once learning the meaning of the word or at least observed some kind of repartee in which the word in question was referenced. and you know what, even if you haven't, there's this big ass book full of words called a dictionary. look it up. it's not that hard. or if you don't know the proper meaning of some word, how about you just don't fricking use it?

the word? LITERALLY.

i want to claw people's eyes out whenever they use the word "literally" improperly. you did not literally explode. if you did, your stupid ass wouldn't be here to tell me that because guess what, brainiac, you would have fucking EXPLODED! LITERALLY! as in your entrails would have been splattered all over the walls or you would have become a cloud of fucking dust. you will not literally die without sex. no one has ever died without sex, not even sex addicts. unless there's a gun to your head or knife against your throat or some explosive device that could literally blow your ass up, and you are forced to screw, you will not literally die.

i've said before, i am by no means one of those self-proclaimed grammar nazis. because those people make me want to literally bitch slap them. but c'mon. enough is enough. just stop using literally unless you are using the literal definition. please.

just look it up.

and while you're at it, look up ironic. and pass a note on to alanis.