argument over literal air

“It can’t be ‘literal air’”

“Well why not?’

“Because, take your pick of the definition of literal. Exact words, without metaphor. The word air is typically a metaphor.”

“It’s air for crying out loud”

“Okay, define air.”

“Easy, Oxygen.”

“HA! Wrong, it is a mixture of a whole bunch of things. It has no real definition that way. The only real definition I can think of is a mannerism, but how can you have a literal mannerism? “

“I’m sorry.”

“Maybe air that you can get from when you do a jump? No, that doesn’t work either.”

“Really?”

“Can you use literal with a verb.”

“Omg, stop.”

“Literally airing out a room, but that is literally not literal and airing not air.”

“Okay, I get it.”

“I don’t think it works for the radio or tv air either.”

“I’m leaving”

“Yeah I don’t see how it works. Hello? Hello? Where did you go?”