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by lucianbr 619 days ago
How could it possibly be meant literally? Do you consider it possible for a rocket to be caught by a literal person with literal wooden sticks?

I guess I don't really understand what you are asking. There's a tower with some huge metal arms that is meant to catch the rocket. They call them chopsticks in a joking manner. Obviously, I would have thought.
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_dain_ 619 days ago
>How could it possibly be meant literally? Do you consider it possible for a rocket to be caught by a literal person with literal wooden sticks?

in ordinary English there are many degrees of "literally".

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TiredOfLife 619 days ago
In ordinary English literally is a synonym of figuratively since 2013
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mavhc 619 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ImRMJX68s
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1659447091 619 days ago
Yeah I totally envisioned a person holding wooden chopsticks trying to catch a booster /s

You missed the quoted part about > which are intended to be able to catch

Which would be the unique thing to clarify. As in "something like" the "chopsticks" moving to > catch < the thing -- Like Mr. Miyagi moving the chopsticks to > catch < the thing

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