[buzzdenver]

"Every time I get a memo from someone written magazine style, I literally tear it up"

So they either communicate on paper, which would be stpid, or he misuses "literally", which would be ironic.

[dionidium]

Use of the word "literally" as hyperbole is understood clearly by every single reader of this thread, including you. You might as well get over it.

[jqm]

Well, we are going to need another word to replace "literally" than. Because in being funny we have literally abused literally to death. For a replacement could we maybe use "figuratively"? Or maybe the joke doesn't work in reverse?

[Flimm]

I actually took what he said at face value and I understood that he does tear paper up.

[jqm]

Which might be true. I know a guy who had his secretary print everything out rather than read it on the screen. Which I always found silly and wasteful, but there are people like this.

[mindcrime]

"Literally" now literally means "figuratively".[1]

Although, to be fair, it's considered an "informal" usage. But still...

[1]: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/22/according_to_the_dictionary_...