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Old 02-14-2008, 01:30 PM   #59 (permalink)
iheartnihilism
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Originally Posted by starscream View Post
No, I think he meant they were literally dreadfully sorry. To be literally sorry and dreadfully sorry makes less sense than being literally dreadfully sorry. Which isn't wrong (he's literally full of dread that anyone can lose their job for saying something innocuous and he's probably sorry about that), it's just that two adverbs back to back almost always sounds horribly awkwardly bad.
Being 'literally sorry' sounds fucked up too. So all the other times you really weren't sorry?
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