What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!
That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"
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we do though. it's "literally". just because a word is used in a figurative sense it doesn't lose its literal meaning. and literally in itself is not some magical word that is immune from figurative use. it's just another word.
I think they're more taking issue with that some dictionaries have seen the figurative use of the word and added figurative as a definition for the word.
you mean doing their job
"Sorry I'm late, Traffic was murder".
"Someone tried to kill you in traffic?!"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murder
Data, is that you? How do you not understand what murder means in that context? If you do something and someone says "you killed it!" do you turn yourself in to the police or do you plan escaping to another country?