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dctoedt on Sept 24, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Raise Boys Who Read

> a commonly accepted definition [of 'literally'] ...

Really? If so, that's worse than "impact" used as a verb, or some of my relatives' apparent belief that certain prepositions no longer take objects ("we're going to the movies; ya wanna come with?")

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eru on Sept 24, 2010 [–]

Funny, in German the literal translation "Willst Du mitkommen?" is perfectly fine ("mit" means "with").

But we do not normally strand our preposition (i.e. put them at the end of a sentence).

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