Grammar love kinfolk who love to point out where comma should be inserted instead of periods and how semi - colon are both at the same time underused and overused , should pick up their red pens , furrowed brows and pitchforks at the fact that the definition of literally is literally no longer the literal definition of literally . The troll who say “ literally ” when they ’re being completely non - literal and say it as an exaggeration or emphasize something have advance .
Before I shatter too many glassful houses with figurative rocks , I ’m entirely shamed of using literally like this make believe secondary definition too . I ’m literally baking from the heat . I ’m literally snuff it from this workout . And so on . In fact , a lot of dead nuts like me probably apply the fake literally in our break down form of un - English moreso than the existent literally of real English . That ’s why us people who do n’t deserve nice things ruin everything . Even if dictionaries should be applauded for changing with the clip and explaining various usance scenario of a word , we now have a Son that means nothing . Literally . Or possibly not , who know any longer .
Merriam - Webster and Cambridge Dictionarieshave both recently bring the intimate , non - actual definition of literally too so it ’s not even Google ’s fault . It ’s our own . Well maybe not literally your demerit but definitely many , many human ’s demerit . [ Imgur , Geekosystem ]
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