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I also am troubled by the misuse of "literally," but sometimes it's so wrong it's funny.
I'm also annoyed by the over-application of the words "ironic" and "ironically."
Some things are just odd without actually being ironic. It doesn't really make you seem smarter to use the word "ironic" when you're talking to anyone who knows what irony is and recognizes that you don't.
(It seems to me that arguments break out on Fark.com all the time about the "ironic" tag, so I know I'm not alone.)
As is true for "literally," it can be pathetically entertaining to consider what factors would have to be true to make a given odd situation truly ironic, but it's rarely worth the effort.
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