Literally?

I tend to not be a grammar Nazi.  I'm an optimist, so I tend to attribute all the there/their/they're, your/you're, and to/too/two to innocent mistakes (I also don't think that spelling necessarily correlates with intelligence as long as the message is understood).

However, there's a recent Dodge Grand Caravan commercial that drives me crazy every time I hear it.  I don't quite understand it, but it's like fingernails to the chalkboard to me.  Partly, I think it's the slightly pretentious, arrogant Dexter voice.  He lists all of the amazing features of the minivan and then he smugly intones, "and oh yeah, it literally gave birth to all other minivans".  Really?  It literally gave birth to them?  As in every other minivan just slipped out the back?  Sorry Dodge, but you've literally lost me as a customer.

I guess "literally" is the new "figuratively".   As Hobbes wisely said:  Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

Speaking of grammar, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks is incredible.  It's one of the "best" "blogs" out "there"...