Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?
It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don’t get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.
The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they’re crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.
So, billionaires are not “literally” cancer, but “billionaires are literally cancer” is supposedly a correct use of “literally”?
This is generally true, but in this particular sentence, the reason the sentence is false is specifically because of the meaning of “literally”.
“The sky is literally purple” is a correct use of “literally” in a false statement. This is what you are trying to argue.
“Billionaires are a cancer” is a correct, figurative statement.
“Billionaires are literally cancer” is false specifically because “literally” does not mean “figuratively”.
Sorry for the multiple replies btw. My app is acting weird.
Correct. But that is not what OP said. Read it again and I think you will see that OP is saying that “Billionaires are cancer” is not a figurative statement at all, but a literal one. You can disagree with them (I do, btw), but they have not misused the word “literally.”
It is a metaphorical statement rather than a simile, but both metaphors and similes are figurative, not literal.
You are refuting an argument that I did not make.
I enjoy this type of debate, but this one doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. I’m moving on. Thank you, sincerely.
Oh, this one went somewhere, just not anywhere you wanted it to go.
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