{"id":60,"date":"2015-01-04T20:55:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2017-03-04T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:38:38","slug":"the-difference-between-literary-and-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-literary-and-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between literary and literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  TLDR: <em>Literary<\/em> is about books. <em>Literally<\/em> means exactly.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good morning\/afternoon\/evening\/night! Welcome to 2015!<\/p>\n<p>Due to the fact that my New Year&#8217;s resolution was &#8216;do more writing&#8217;, I thought it would be good to start off the year with a brief note on the difference between the words <em>literary<\/em> and <em>literally.<\/em> Sitting next to each other, these two look distractingly similar, but fear not\u2014their physical appearance is their only common trait.<\/p>\n<p>literary (adjective)\u2014concerning literature and its contents, procedure and analysis; possessing a style in formal writing<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Great literary writers are not born every day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s<\/em> War and Peace <em>is a literary epic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8216;This piece is too literary in tone. Try something more natural.&#8217;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>literally (adverb)\u2014in a literal sense, precisely, exactly; a term of emphasis<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>&#8216;There is literally no time for us to catch the train now!&#8217; Dorris complained, looking at her watch. &#8216;We&#8217;ve missed it.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t mean for you to literally pick me up just now, you know.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8216;My boss had literally, like, a hundred meetings this week and I had to make tea for every single guest!&#8217;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see, these two words have no similarities when it comes to meaning or context. Phew! That just makes learning when to use each one that much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clue: neither have anything to do with kitty litter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}