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Might be the clickbait treadmill, indeed, or algospeak. But it doesn't need an objective meaning to be treated that way. The word "literally" can no longer be t
by tgv 2y ago
Might be the clickbait treadmill, indeed, or algospeak. But it doesn't need an objective meaning to be treated that way. The word "literally" can no longer be trusted to mean "in a literal sense". It's frequently used as an intensifier.
- ttctciyf 2y ago> The word "literally" can no longer be trusted to mean "in a literal sense". It's frequently used as an intensifier. It was ever thus. See, for example, https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439 https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/96439
- tgv 2y agoThat's a bad case of gotcha linguistics.
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