Literally and Figuratively
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Apr 15 19:53:26 UTC 2005
>Here is what I thought to be a nice citation demonstrating how clearly the
>meaning of "literally" has changed.
>
>Benjamin Barrett
>Baking the World a Better Place
>www.hiroki.us
>
>-----Original Message-----
>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/14/state/n163438D28.
>DTL [...]
>--> "She really had been, literally and figuratively, married to San
>Francisco for the last 15 years," Singer said.
So while she'll be leaving office, she literally and figuratively
left her heart in San Francisco. Ouch.
L
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