Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He 
was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and 
PHYSICALLY this and that.....

Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?

Oxymel of Squill wrote:
> 
> Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He
> was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and
> PHYSICALLY this and that.....
> 
> Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?

Does it come from the field of computing where one has (say) a physical
file which is bits of magnetized stuff scattered over a platter, versus
a logical file which appears as (perhaps) a sequence of letters?  I've
heard it used many times on the wireless and it sounds quite daft, but
then again I've heard 'literally' misused too often as well.

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Wouldn't be sure but attested / That, whoever it was, a god /
Worth kneeling-to for a while / Had tabernacled and rested.
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> Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He 
> was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and 
> PHYSICALLY this and that.....
>
> Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?

Are you sure ABSOLUTELY! never came into it?

ABSOLUTELY! Not a single report comes through these days unless it is 
ABSOLUTELY! qualified as being ABSOLUTELY! correct at the beginning of 
ABSOLUTELY! every single sentence.

ABSOLUTELY!

IAAWTP!

On 23 Jan, 12:52, Frederick Williams <"Frederick
Williams"@antispamhotmail.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Oxymel of Squill wrote:
>
> > Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He
> > was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and
> > PHYSICALLY this and that.....
>
> > Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?
>
> Does it come from the field of computing where one has (say) a physical
> file which is bits of magnetized stuff scattered over a platter, versus
> a logical file which appears as (perhaps) a sequence of letters?  I've
> heard it used many times on the wireless and it sounds quite daft, but
> then again I've heard 'literally' misused too often as well.

Perhaps they are under orders to stop saying "literally", and just as
well.

Any split infinitives as the slaughter continues?

Oxymel of Squill wrote:
> Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He
> was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and
> PHYSICALLY this and that.....
>
> Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?

Furthermore, on the PM news, Sir Bobby Charlton said of the effect of
the plane crash in Munich in 1958 in which eight Manchester United
players were amongst the dead, "Manchester United was really just on
the brink of actually going to, to the moon, literally."

But not physically, perhaps.

Robert Carnegie wrote:
> 
> Oxymel of Squill wrote:
> > Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He
> > was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and
> > PHYSICALLY this and that.....
> >
> > Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?
> 
> Furthermore, on the PM news, Sir Bobby Charlton said of the effect of
> the plane crash in Munich in 1958 in which eight Manchester United
> players were amongst the dead, "Manchester United was really just on
> the brink of actually going to, to the moon, literally."
> 
> But not physically, perhaps.

I noticed that.  And how it annoys me to hear, still, after all this
time, the Munich air disaster discussed as if the deaths of the
footballers was more significant than the other deaths.

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On 8 Feb, 15:52, Frederick Williams <"Frederick
Williams"@antispamhotmail.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Robert Carnegie wrote:
>
> > Oxymel of Squill wrote:
> > > Did we count the number of uses of PHYSICALLY in the report from Gaza. He
> > > was physically standing in Gaza, someone had PHYSICALLY cut the wires, and
> > > PHYSICALLY this and that.....
>
> > > Surely he meant to say LITERALLY ?
>
> > Furthermore, on the PM news, Sir Bobby Charlton said of the effect of
> > the plane crash in Munich in 1958 in which eight Manchester United
> > players were amongst the dead, "Manchester United was really just on
> > the brink of actually going to, to the moon, literally."
>
> > But not physically, perhaps.
>
> I noticed that.  And how it annoys me to hear, still, after all this
> time, the Munich air disaster discussed as if the deaths of the
> footballers was more significant than the other deaths.

They were young athletes of whom much was expected by many people,
including (at least with hindsight) playing in the national team.
Popular people are mourned more.  Just as three people died in one car
crash; one was the Princess of Wales, one was her boyfriend, one
wasn't.  There have been worse car accidents but that one is
particularly famous.