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How is it misuse? This is how words are used - people use turns of phrase and metaphors, and then popular metaphors become secondary meanings. Very popular seco
by tsimionescu 11mo ago
How is it misuse? This is how words are used - people use turns of phrase and metaphors, and then popular metaphors become secondary meanings. Very popular secondary meanings can even become grammar pieces - like "very", which has become the most standard intensifier, but used to be a normal adverb, like literally and truly.
- shwaj 11mo agoIt’s an inadvertent step toward Newspeak, where we no longer have a word that means what “literally” used to unambiguously mean.