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[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wasn't going for an ethymological argument. Plenty of examples of words whose meaning veered away from its ethymology.

But the recent popularization of literally as a synonym of figuratively, well, it literally rustles my jimmies.

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