Stop saying LITERALLY when you mean FIGURATIVELY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- Standup comedy on the subject of people who use the word literally when they mean figuratively.
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I learned the difference between "literally" and "figuratively" in elementary school. From a Lemony Snicket book. So this has been a pet peeve of mine since I was LITERALLY a child.
Very Funny Dialogue there
You're still using it wrong. There's no way to figuratively say "since I was a child"
@@Lapusso650 there's also no way you can say that it's literally "raining cat's and dogs." That's a phrase that only has figurative use, because the literal use is impossible. That doesn't mean it isn't still figurative.
@@joelbrich2538 what are you talking about? Are you defending saying it's "literally raining cats and dogs?"
@@Lapusso650 what? How is THAT what you got from what I said?
I love you, people who hate the misuse of "literally."
The explosion in the use of the word literally is due to people online thinking that it made them seem clever. It also increased their word count and combined with other filler words it increased their "content". Fascinating.
I am Figuratively going to die from this stab wound in my heart
I love how joyful and happy your energy is 🙌🏽
Josh, youre an amazing inspiration. Not only are you funny, talented (I mean your an olympian), and creative, but you also take steps to try new things, like stand-up. This why I feel okay giving you some constructive criticism here. Now, I'm no expert on comedy, quite the contrary actually, but I like to think I have a good gauge for a good comic. I'll start by saying you have a lot of potential. You have creative ideas and the charisma to pull them off. One thing I find takes away from this, though, is the delivery. You're setup was nice and clean and the punchline worked at first, but it can feel like you're hand-holding your audience too much. This is obviousdly not intentional, but I think it is evident in the way you continue to explain your joke. It almost seems like you're afraid the crowd won't "get it" if you don't provide 2-3 examples relating to your life. This might be because your trying to fill time or your just nervous (I would be too), but don't feel like you have to explain your jokes. Feel free to take thus with a grain of salt, or even a whole shaker. Obviously your audience is having fun and laughing and I've been known to be too critical of people. I just hope that whatever endeavours you continue in, comedy, writing or anything else, you know your fans will support and laugh with you all the way through.
Whenever I upload a 60-version of a comedy bit, a lot of people comment saying it was too short. So I didn't cut as much out of this one. But I guess it's too long? I can go back to the 60-second versions if that's preferable to people.
@@JoshSundquist The longer, less edited vids are LITERALLY the best ones....keep 'em coming!!
I love you so much Josh! I appreciate your passion for positivity and *literally* everything about you. Keep being awesome!!!!!!!!
heheheh
You just used "literally" wrong...do you realize that?
@@JoshSundquist do you realize he just used it wrong...?
Here is a list of some of the words that people wrongly replace "literally" for:
Very
Honestly
Really
So
Actually
Practically, almost, nearly, virtually...
My dad actually has a hollow leg, and one time he was on a date and the girls parents said: you eat so much it's like you have a hollow leg! And they didn't know he really did
"He literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room." F. S. Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby".
Meanwhile, Edgar Allen Poe flat-out began his short story The Black Cat with the lines "For the most wild yet most homely narrative," and while people still get their superlatives (and comparatives) wrong more times than not, the fact that the words "wildest" and "homeliest" exist prove that bit of grammar to be objectively wrong. Moral of the story: Fiction writers take liberties with the English language more times than people realize for one narrative reason or another, but just because they do doesn't automatically make what they write correct in the end. Why should the case with "literally," then, be any exception?
@@DustinMWeber This. Exactly this. Unless the OP considers every abuser of the word "literally" to be taking poetic licence, stop with the rationalization. And with the abuse of the word itself.
@@tstcikhthyss Exactly! Thank you.
Dustin M. Weber His name is actually Edgar Allan Poe, not Edgar Allen Poe. What is wrong with the word wildest? In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine the word wildest not being acceptable. And I mean that figuratively, not literally.
@@tstcikhthyss is this a joke? Using it for "poetic license" IS using it wrong 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I would love to translate this video, but it won't make sense because all of the jokes are idiomatic expressions
SAME
its soooo annoying just hearing the word nowadays
I love this!! 😂❤ I've just got We Should Hang Out Sometime as a birthday present and I am loving it so far!! 😊❤
+Carrot oh nice! Thanks for reading!
I actually had to make burial arrangements for my leg 😂 this is the practice in Israel. I think I am the only amputee that made the woman who had to make that phone call crack up laughing. I had a ton of platinum in my leg... I wanted it... They would not do that, so I asked them, where it was being buried and if I could see it before... Might have worked if I hadn't just gone on and on about them getting the platinum out for me. I told the woman that I would do it myself... Yeah, I blame the meds, it was 4 days after the surgery. I still laugh about it.
Joshua, I began watching you a few months before my amputation in January, I also get through life with humor, but In my down moments, you still perk me up and make me laugh. Thank you!
well you could have taken it threw the legal system, as it was initially your own property, but honestly, I don't think you'd have had a leg to stand on.
I'm not even a native English speaker and this "literally disease" pisses me off. Not only because it gets switched with figuratively but because it gets misused as an exaggeration
Yeah, its insanely stupid
That's the same thing...
You are a strong person to make this point and I appreciate your commitment to making the point well done
Hell on the Earth, I'm smiling through tears, both literally and figuratively.
Since I had both my legs amputated in January I've noticed figures of speech a lot more and I use them to my advantage to make jokes lol "legless (meaning drunk)" is one I like to use a lot in sentences haha
i dunno, it's funny the first time, and the second time you hear it you smile, but i just don't think it has any real legs to it.
Literally and figuratively just like the series of unfortunate events
Theo Leadfoot is 2 feet shorter than most people, literally.
I literally died watching this.
It's those damn teenagers...
Like Charles Dickens and Emily Brontë…
@ it's ironic because I'm one too 😂🤦🏼♂️, it's a joke
Thx for this
What a legend
You wanna know the beauty of language? The meanings of words change all the time, to where even though to use literally means to refer to something in a literal manner or sense, it can also be used when someone is speaking in a figurative way, because people around the individual using literally in a figurative manner KNOW it's being used figuratively, which in turn means it's not an incorrect method of use. To demand people stop using a word a specific way when it's becoming more widely acceptable for that usage is the true issue we have as that's the individual demanding we stop evolving human speech.
Everyone should watch this literally
Hey that's my school! So bummed I was in class during this ugh
Figuratively Hitler
I prefer to use the word physically in most cases where it makes more sense.
Instead of "girls have it easy, i mean men will physically open doors for them" i could use literally but i find physically makes more sense, and in many cases it actually does. So im in the same boat, i just hate people saying the word for another reason.
I figuratively like this guy
Hey Josh, are you ever going to make your old style of videos again?
BALANCE RESTORED!
oh look litteraly ted mosby
“I figuratively cannot take it anymore.” As easy as you think it is, this doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as good as “I literally cannot take this anymore.”
And how about... "I can't take this anymore?" Ppl here adding stupidly long words with no need just goes against all the evolution the language has gone through.
Just replace literally with seriously
Too late. "Literally" now means the same thing as "figuratively". The only recourse is to use "Unironically" in place of "Literally".
On the bright side you don't have to deal with the annoyance that is trying to fit in a chair but that one leg is to big
Classic schmosby
which is literally good for me 🗿
Watch Studio C Captain Literally skits on TH-cam. Balance restored.
Your daily routine, my husband says I'm going to go hop in the shower to which I answer no, just stand there you might fall
So is a ironically
two normal mistakes when people use this work, fully wrong, referring to something figuratively or be redundant which is “right” but is wrong.
I wanted to watch this because I’m annoyed at people overusing “literally” only to get more annoyed at this guy talking in High Rising Tone/UPTALK. Vomit.
Why you dont use a prosthetic leg?
I have bifid spin.
Eduardo Padilla he has said in the past that prosthetics hurt, so he no longer uses them
Ive heard this from my aunt too, she prefers the chair to the fake leg because of pain
no wonder! now I understand.
Eduardo Padilla I lost my leg and I love my prosthetic it doesn’t hurt at all and it allows me to to still run and I love to go rock climbing
Great for you my sister or brother!! :) Keep enjoying life to the fulest!! (y)
IM SORRY but It's stuck in my head I literally say the word literallly all the time without even using it right I just heard many people say it and it's stuck in me
I’m dying
In the whole video I just heard 'leg'. Nice and confident guy but eventually it gets way too exaggerated.
You spelled "incorrectly" incorrectly on the thumbnail, which is literally ironic. Haha.
No dislikes, yay!
Jokes aside, I wonder how he lost his leg.🦵🏻
You are literally a very good explainer.
is that the correct usage?
@@vintageb8 yes but completely unnecessary unless the intention was not to come across as sarcastic
Couldn’t one hypothetically use the word “literally” figuratively? Just for the sake of argument
Of course one could. Everyone does. The argument that one should not say "literally" when being figurative, is a quite literal example of one trying to be a smart-ass when being painfully wrong.
@@tajniak4335 It’s better to be a smart ass instead of a dumbass. Anyway, there’s a reason why words have definitions and we have standards for using those. Like the word “cringe” (the slang definition anyway) used to mean that they were referring to something embarrassing or having secondhand embarrassment and nowadays, people just use it for something they don’t like. Even the actual definition of cringe means to shrink away in fear or embarrassment. Edgy (the informal definition) used to mean trendy or be at the forefront of a trend or experiment, then came to mean to be dark, brooding, and making extreme statements, and now people use it to refer to someone they don’t really like. I even got into an argument about it with someone when they referred to someone else as edgy and asked them how and they basically meant they were mean and nasty. See where shit gets fucked up? I get languages evolve over time but with the rise of the internet, this is getting out of hand.
@@tajniak4335 He’s not even wrong, the only people that are in the wrong are the ones using it wrong.
@@nosiidda501 This is not a matter of the language evolving in the internet, the word "literally" has been used methaphorically long before the internet. It's not even a problem just in the english language - "literally" is also used as an inteisifer in other languages.
@@tajniak4335 You’re not getting what I’m saying, we need to have some standards in order for each other to be understood, I mean, you can’t use slang when applying for a job, can you? Besides, sometimes it’s necessary to not joke around like that sometimes because you could get arrested like that. Btw, never said it only pertained to the English language
You're literally very funny
POV u found him on TikTok
I just found a podcast with Josh in it! Here's the link: th-cam.com/video/9Zu9G4N5qPQ/w-d-xo.html
Saying "figuratively" instead of "literally" is obviously just plain WRONG and here's why. Using the word "literally" is supposed to intensify the methaphor. If you put "figuratively" in its place then there is no metaphor anymore - paraodixically, using the word "figuratively" will make the sentence completely literal. Using the word "figuratively" in a methaphore it's like telling a joke with literally explaining the punchline to the listener - there is no joke anymore.
That's why the argument against using the world "literally" is really incredibly stupid and it's a quite literal example of people trying to be smart-asses when they are clearly wrong.
You could just avoid saying the word altogether when joking around; btw, there needs to be standards and your mentality will end up reducing any human language into gibberish, to the point where people won’t even understand each other anymore.
@@nosiidda501 Take up that argument with Dickens, Joyce, et al. They "misused" this word ages before you were even born.
@ They were the first ones to misuse it then. Problem solved.
Josh is telling literally lame jokes in this video.
He's literally a stand up comedian.
People will never stop doing that.
I saw a video from the 60's and the narrator misused the word.
In the whole video I just heard 'leg'. Nice and confident guy but eventually it gets way too exaggerated.
In the whole video I just heard 'leg'. Nice and confident guy but eventually it gets way too exaggerated.
In the whole video I just heard 'leg'. Nice and confident guy but eventually it gets way too exaggerated.