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Sorry maybe my post wasn't clear. Yes, this is the rule as I've always understood it as well. These acquaintances of mine are stating you may only use literally in one situation - when you want to clarify that a figurative expression/saying actually happened. For example - "he was so mad, he literally hit the ceiling." Generally people don't hit the ceiling, so you're using literally to convey that he actually hit the ceiling. This is apparently the only correct usage whereas you are not supposed to use literally when you simply mean actually. "I was literally just talking to him" would then be incorrect even if you were actually just talking to him since taking literally out of the sentence doesn't change the meaning. I responded that it may be superfluous but I don't think it's an incorrect use of the word. I had just never heard of this distinction and was wondering if others had.

I'm wondering if anyone has heard of the following rule? I have some acquaintances who insist "literally" can only be used when you mean that a generally figurative expression actually happened. It's not to be used to mean actually in a more general sense as an intensifier (I was literally driving down the highway") but only to be used when you want to clarify that a normally figurative expression actually happened (as in "Little Women" - "the land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions"). I've only ever seen the admonishment to not use literally when you actually mean figuratively ("I have such a horrible headache, my head is literally going to explode"). I have never heard of this supposed rule and so was looking for other opinions and/or a source for this rule. OED defines literally to mean actually and I've seen it used as an intensifier my entire life so this rule struck me as odd.

NH definitely get more of a storyline. It's controversial as to whether it's a better storyline. I liked the S2 story arc for NH for the most part (unpopular opinion) but that's probably because I didn't watch in in real time. I started watching live around 305 or 306 so the NH reunion wasn't drawn out for me. Haley's my favorite character so I didn't like her off screen/with limited screen time for some of the eps in s2 but I could fast forward stuff that wasn't interesting to me and get through the filler eps pretty quickly. Yeah that part makes no sense at all. So because she's never done anything hasty in her life up to this point, we should let her marry as a teenager?!?! I think that's part of why I did like that they had Haley backing out of the marriage in s2, I think she never expected her parents to say yes and then she was a little like wait, wha? I guess I'm just trying to say I don't think it's unrealistic for a 16 year old to maybe have second thoughts re marrying someone so young. She was totally vilified for it by the crazy tweener fans though. Looking back, if this show had been run by more competent people, I think it would have been interesting to split them up for more time and then have them come back together later but that probably would have ruined them for me since the writers for this show couldn't have split them up without going for the easy third party storylines. Especially since they could barely stay away from those stories even though they kept NH married. It is strangely addicting! I haven't watched a full on ep in awhile (and frankly I could probably only watch a season 1 ep all the way through at this point) but will watch clips every so often even though the show ended awhile ago.

CMM got married again over the summer. To Sarah Roemer - I bet that extra he was engaged to forever is pissed haha. http://talkintv.buffalonews.com/2015/01/15/surprising-news-wnyers-involved-agent-carter/