RicOlie_2 said:

dclarkg said: Is not literally a marathon, it will be a 3 night split, 2 per night.

I wouldn't nitpick your grammar if "literally" wasn't such an abused word, but a literal marathon would be a long distance run of however long it is. You could use "really" or "actually" instead (e.g. "It won't actually be a marathon") since those words aren't as strong as "literally," and can allow for a figurative meaning (now I'm going to have people nitpicking over the definitions of "really" and "actually" :P).

Carry on....

As you can see, I said is NOT literally a marathon :p

TV's Frink said:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marathon

Yeah I was going for the 2nd one, If we get technical the original source of the word is a place where the battle of Marathon took place and not an actual race :P

RicOlie_2 said:

Nope. A literal marathon is the race. The other definitions of marathon (other than the place, obviously) are figurative derivatives of the literal meaning.

I thought that we had already established that isn't literally a ''marathon'' when we included 6 movies in the same sentence. :P

Handman said:

This guy's first language isn't even English, so I think you can give him a break in this regard.

My first language is Spanish, the funny part is that both my father and grandfather are from USA

RicOlie_2 said:

Alright, maybe he doesn't want it, but I know what it's like to be a second language speaker, and I would want people to correct me, especially on things I wouldn't be able to figure out without being told. I don't plan on picking apart his grammar at every opportunity unless he asks for it, though. And apologies to him if he didn't want it. :P

Hey not a problem, I appreciate it. Feel free to point me out any errors in my grammar, I'm sure I make mistakes all the time without realizing it so any help is welcome. At lest in this case I knew it wasn't literally a marathon but I was trying to use the broad meaning of the word ;)