@SuperSupermario24  
Buddy Christ is awesome, yo, I have a figurine of Him next to my computer desk at home.

@raw19  
That picture  
Is creepy as hell  
e.e

@SuperSupermario24
 

Can we just stop fighting about grammar and enjoy(?) the diabetes

@Background Pony #697F  
unless you’re saying you can’t ever add emphasis to absolutes  
Yes, that is in fact exactly what I am saying. An absolute, you see– or, apparently, don’t– is an absolute. You can say “That guy is extremely dead” if you want, but it is grammatically incorrect, because death is an absolute.
 
you saying that a modifier must change the meaning  
*Citation needed. “Change the meaning” implies making a word mean something different, which is patently not the same thing as modifying a word by tacking on a useless intensifier.
 
You are quite bad at grammar.

@TexasUberAlles  

 
No, see, I was responding to you saying that a modifier must change the meaning. While I probably phrased it wrong, what I was saying is that it doesn’t affect the message and is only for emphasis. You said there’s no acceptable modifier to a word that’s a flat either/or condition, but you can add emphasis to quite literally anything. Are you getting what I’m saying now? You recognizing emphasis words as modifiers now doesn’t make sense with your original point, unless you’re saying you can’t ever add emphasis to absolutes.
 
@SuperSupermario24  
Yeah, that’s the way I see it. Glad I’m not being 100% misunderstood. :P

@Background Pony #697F  
@TexasUberAlles  
I think it’s like this: emphasizing is like adding water to a glass that’s already partially filled with water, while modifying is like replacing the water with juice. In both cases, you’re technically changing the contents of the glass, but in the case of “emphasizing” it’s still a glass that has water in it.  
Does this seem accurate?

@Background Pony #697F  
 
You are just never going to understand this, are you? Emphasis = modification. To emphasize is to modify. This is an extremely basic concept.

@TexasUberAlles  
…Emphasizing something doesn’t change its meaning, it only puts emphasis on the meaning that was already there. In any given use of a word being used for emphasis, it could be taken out with no real difference changed to the message.

@Background Pony #697F  
Yes, and believe it or not, using a word to emphasize another is in fact an example of modifying it. Hence, Exasperated Larry Wilmore being exasperated at you. You might as well have said, “It’s not being used as a verb, it’s being used to indicate action.”

@TexasUberAlles  
Believe it or not, words can be used for emphasis in the English language.

@TexasUberAlles  
The point of language is to communicate.  
If you can understand what a person is trying to say, it shouldn’t matter if they don’t have perfect grammar.  
Yes it makes you look more professional, but let’s be honest… on a My Little Pony image board, professionalism probably isn’t all that important.  
That’s just me though.

@Background Pony #697F  
It’s not being used as a modifier  
it’s being used for emphasis
 

@TexasUberAlles  
It’s not being used as a modifier, it’s being used for emphasis. It isn’t 100% necessary to get the point across, but it makes the point have more impact and helps people know you’re being serious. Words being used for emphasis work grammatically. The point gets across without them, but they do just that, emphasize.
 
And yes, the fact that people misuse “literally” is a related issue, because if you hear a word misused enough, you might not be sure which way people mean it and clarification is important. The emphasis on the word makes it clearer that they mean it and aren’t just tossing it around, like Chris Bores when he said that X-Men “literally blew [him] away”.

@Background Pony #697F  
What it means is that you don’t understand English grammar if you use it to modify “literally”; a concept is literal or it is figurative, one or the the other, and there is no acceptable modifier to a flat either/or condition. That other people misuse the word “literally” (when what they really mean is “really” or “seriously” or some other generic intensifier) is a completely separate issue, and the correct way to indicate that you literally mean “literally” is to say “literally”.

@TexasUberAlles  
…Yeah, it really is. It clarifies that you’re using the word “literally” seriously and not randomly tossing it around. It works grammatically, what are you on about? Do you even know what the word “quite” means?

No, but the anti-psychotics I’m on might do it.

It is literally never grammatically correct to use the phrase “quite literally”.

And then Parents worldwide showed it to their kids anyway. wonder what kind of statement that makes…

HA! I showed them. By the time the show aired, I already HAD diabetes.  
..  
Stupid pancreas…

@Background Pony #697F  
Metaphorically

@DAPLR  
Literally killing you? :P

@Background Pony #697F  
STOP! You’re killing me!!!

@DAPLR  
I meant it literally, though.