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Actually, the hyperbolic literally has been used for centuries. It's just a more common convention now. Excuse my pedantry.
by anomie31 9y ago
Actually, the hyperbolic literally has been used for centuries. It's just a more common convention now.
Excuse my pedantry.
- abecedarius 9y agoAll right, I'll cop to hyping the degree to which the erosion of 'literally' is recent! We humans totally love our hyperbole. (But the process is not so far along as for 'really' and 'incredible'.)