Also, you’re confusing “literal” with “verbatim.” A paraphrase doesn’t have to be verbatim to be literal, and likewise a quote can be verbatim without being literal.
No, you’re using it incorrectly. You’re attempting to use it as meaning “verbatim.”
It’s completely accurate to say “literally” while paraphrasing.
And it wasn’t just my interpretation, it was the clear intended meaning as evidenced by later discussion when people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.
It’s completely accurate to say “literally” while paraphrasing.
No is isn’t. Use words like “essentially” for that. “It’s literally what they said” is in fact a lie.
Especially not when inventing a bunch of absolutism that wasn’t there and interpreting it with a whole bunch of extra, much easier to debunk nonsense that you added yourself.
people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.
I didn’t see that in this thread. Oh, unless you’re meaning it “literally” with your version of the word “literally” which doesn’t man literally literally and for some reason includes absurd straw man content.
Really?
This you?
If you can’t see the strawmanning here, you’re one or more of unselfaware, unable to back down when you’re wrong, disingenuous or malicious.
That’s not a strawman or an invention, it’s literally what the person was saying.
Are you fixating on the fact that it wasn’t verbatim? Because I had to elucidate the subtext, since otherwise you’ll pretend subtext doesn’t exist.
And there you go pretending subtext doesn’t exist. Amazing.
And there you go pretending context doesn’t exist. Amazing.
You and I clearly use the word literally very differently. I use it considerably more honestly and literally than you do.
I’m leaning towards options (b) and © here.
You’re the one ignoring context.
Also, you’re confusing “literal” with “verbatim.” A paraphrase doesn’t have to be verbatim to be literal, and likewise a quote can be verbatim without being literal.
And you’re the one strawmanning.
Like I say, you and I use the word “literally” very, very differently.
When I say something like “they literally said it”, I mean that they actually said it. You know, that that was what they said. Literally.
When you use that phrase, you mean “that’s how I interpreted it because I wanted to argue about it. All day.”
No, you’re using it incorrectly. You’re attempting to use it as meaning “verbatim.”
It’s completely accurate to say “literally” while paraphrasing.
And it wasn’t just my interpretation, it was the clear intended meaning as evidenced by later discussion when people insisted that sex has no meaningful use even in medical contexts.
Get over yourself.
I didn’t see that in this thread. Oh, unless you’re meaning it “literally” with your version of the word “literally” which doesn’t man literally literally and for some reason includes absurd straw man content.