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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Dribble
I heard that Bob's only taking literally a handful of people
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Really? Wow. Literally a handful of people?!?! How many people can he fit in his hand?
It's becoming more and more common for people to use "literally" when they really mean "figuratively", simply b/c "literally" is more dramatic. I must see it literally a million times a day. 
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Now Chuck, at the risk of posting yet something else that is better off left unsaid, here are the 2 definitions Google gave me for 'literally':
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=literally
Definitions of literally on the Web:
Adverb
S: (adv) literally (in a literal sense) "literally translated"; "he said so literally"
S: (adv) literally ((intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration) "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"
Hopefully JR will keep his yap shut.