I hope you’re right that there’s at least a qualification, but people don’t seem to know that.
I like to think I’m open to new words joining the lexicon, new meanings as society develops but Its still hard to accept this one.
“Literally” is so overused as hyperbole that we’re going to give it the opposite meaning? wtf? Actually, it’s like a swear word and loses its punch when overused. The act of acceptance of the opposite meaning takes away from its use in hyperbole
It’s in a dictionary, not the dictionary. There can be mistakes in a dictionary. It was someone’s judgement call. Dictionaries are not prescriptive and you can’t really use them like that, anyway.
It’s not a literal river
Figuratively literal means figuratively. It’s even in the dictionary now, sad to say
Doesn’t the figurative use of literally date back to shakespear? afaik its acceptable so long as its actually attatched to an appropriate metaphor.
I hope you’re right that there’s at least a qualification, but people don’t seem to know that.
I like to think I’m open to new words joining the lexicon, new meanings as society develops but Its still hard to accept this one.
“Literally” is so overused as hyperbole that we’re going to give it the opposite meaning? wtf? Actually, it’s like a swear word and loses its punch when overused. The act of acceptance of the opposite meaning takes away from its use in hyperbole
It’s in a dictionary, not the dictionary. There can be mistakes in a dictionary. It was someone’s judgement call. Dictionaries are not prescriptive and you can’t really use them like that, anyway.