The dictionary is caving and listing “literally” as meaning “actually”, “in effect” or “virtually” along with the original meaning and I completely resent this caving.
Militant wing of Toastmasters, rise up! (don’t tell me there isn’t a militant wing of Toastmasters I know there is you’all are just hiding it).
@arush Language evolves. I know it’s annoying but people are stupid and we have to get used to that. There is a Chrome extension which will change every occurrence of ‘literally’ to ‘figuratively’, and it’s rarely wong ?
@arush That literally made me laugh. Literally as in the old definition. 🙂
@arush As much as it annoys me to hear the word used that way, it’s the evolution of language in action. Indeed, the words that I am writing now wouldn’t exist without it. ?