Linguists call this usage, “the emphatic literally” and the best writers of the past 300 years have used it. So if it’s good enough for Charlotte Brontë, Jane

Linguists call this usage, “the emphatic literally” and the best writers of the past 300 years have used it. So if it’s good enough for Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Vladimir Nabokov, and David Foster Wallace, then it’s good enough for me. Literally. https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using-literally-figuratively.html https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/the-300-year-history-of-using...