By now, we have all seen the memes about the ubiquitous grammatical missteps such as their, they’re and there. We have all been victim to or have victimized others on the use of words like irregardless or anyways. The list goes on and on, but they are played out. We’ve all been complaining about or been blindly misusing them for quite some time now. Instead, what I want to focus on today is the abbreviation of a common adverb that ends in ly.
Of course that word is really. It’s as if it no longer exists. At some point, as a society, we got lazy and just decided to hell with the ly, that’s far too much work for me. I prefer this adverb to be monosyllabic. There is a growing subculture of folks who have fully embraced the truncated form of really. They are hard at work making really a thing of the past, relegated to the annals of history. It’s only a matter of time at this point before the good folks over at Oxford throw their hands up and pander to the unwoke mob by adding it to their damn dictionary.
Yet, there is hope, dear readers. There are still those who recognize that really and real are in fact two different words, with different meanings. We can fight back. We can resist. We can proclaim as a collective to no longer sit idly by and watch as our favorite adverb slowly goes the way of the dodo.
Shit just got really!