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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s always “hello” and “have a nice day”

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s not how ‘literally’ works

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  • maryjayjay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of 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.

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is truly bizarre that one of the definitions of the word is literally the opposite of the primary definition of the word, however.

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      • maryjayjay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves

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