John Barnett had worked for Boeing for 32 years, until his retirement in 2017.

In the days before his death, he had been giving evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.

Boeing said it was saddened to hear of Mr Barnett’s passing. The Charleston County coroner confirmed his death to the BBC on Monday.

It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t know what you were trying to achieve beyond publicly announcing you’re a petty, boring person.

    • ArxCyberwolf
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      You could’ve just done so and moved on, my guy. It’s not a profound statement.

    • @[email protected]
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      Did he not literally volunteer?

      I mean, I get it, I’m sick of “literally” meaning “figuratively”, and I’d die on that hill with you, but this is the dumbest possible time to make that stand. In this case “literally” just means “literally”.

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      Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes a definition of literally meaning “figuratively”. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.

      So until you write something as well respected and enduring as Sanditon, The Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer, or Ulysses and collect your mother fucking Nobel prize in literature, please choke on a literal dick you confidently incorrect fuckwit.

      • @[email protected]
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        In this case literally literally did mean literally, though, not figuratively. Which makes the fuckwit even more incorrect.

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        Wondering if they historically used it more as in a ‘literarily’ sense and with license

        Evolving language and all that

        (I’m not trying to argue anything, just musing)

      • Riskable
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        I don’t care what justification you throw out. Misuse of literally drives me figuratively insane!

          • Riskable
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            It’s just a general statement. Not specific to this article or comments 🤷

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      i’m literally sorry that you literally don’t know standard english my guy, i literally don’t know what to literally say to you 😭

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      “Literally” CAN be used as an hyperbole. It’s just a more emphatic way to say “very”