Guilty as Charged

I ran across a hilarious blog post today at Redstate linked via The Point about many of the blogging clichés that need to go away. It was funny because it was true — and because of the post’s overuse of clichés both standard and bloggy to make the point. I’ve resorted to many of these expressions and techniques in the past (even as recently as earlier today).

An example from the post:

Literally: The word literally is literally being drug in the street and shot every five minutes. It has literally been corrupted worse than William Jefferson (D-La). It has literally gotten up at 11:00 PM, half an hour before it went to bed the night before, ate cold poison for breakfast, licked the highway clean with its tongue, worked 28 hours at mill, and paid the miller for permission to work, and when it got home, its father beat it to death with a broken glass bottle and danced about on its grave. I literally need people to stop using literally as if it literally is the word figuratively or virtually the same as virtually. That is, quite literally, Enough. Of. That.

So check it out, laugh, and for all of our sakes, call me on it when you see me using one.  Really.

Anybody got one that the author missed?

P.S. The other grammar-related post linked in the Redstate post is also very funny, at least to me and perhaps other grammar geeks (Carl).