Some of them have been literal mistakes such as bombing the wrong compound.
It's become a colloquialism that refers generally to human error, either a literal typing error or a more figurative mistake.
Literally his literal genitals.
When asked, younger children generally interpret rhetorical questions as literal, deliberate exaggeration as a mistake and sarcasm as a lie.
This usage can be dangerous as it usually can be understood, even by mistake, to denote the actual literal meaning.
His "metasemantic" interpretation of the 2D framework is intended to characterize what is communicated when conversational partners are partially ignorant or mistaken about the literal meaning of their own words.
(Some of that rationale includes: a.) Otherwise topflight, liberal-minded illustrator forgets that parody involves the employment of imagery to convey something opposite its literal meaning, b.) Otherwise mistake-averse magazine becomes caught in blind spot after big city liberals get bitter and "cling to rhetorical guns" to express feelings of being jilted by overly centrist nominee, and c).
There is a reason for the stank: The horrendous smell apparently tricks bugs like pollen-carrying carrion beetles into mistaking them for literal rotting meat, ensuring a pollination cycle.
Some French have attacked rap, he said, simply because they don't view it as art — and mistake aggressive posturing for literal threats of violence.
The need for some novel construction is signaled by the impossibility of assembling the elements in the usual (literal) way". And that is a compound mistake.
When it comes to the genesis myth, even the early Christian scholars said, "You mustn't read this as a literal rendition of fact". It's a mistake to confuse religious fundamentalists with the vast, rich tradition of religious life.
