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Proposed add: METALITERALLY: the incessant use of the word “literally” to heighten severity of something that is, literally, a metaphor. Example: “the toxic masculinity in here is literally suffocating! I am literally DYING!”
Dictionaries have literally begun to include "figuratively" or "metaphorically," as one of the definitions of "literally." I kid you not. The world needs The Orwelexicon.pic.twitter.com/qL2mdrKM24
Ugh guys get over it this is the entire history of language
Genuine question. Got any examples, say, from the last 40 years, where a word permanently took on its diametric opposite meaning? I mean, "bad" meant good (or cool) for about 2 yrs in the 1970s, then evaporated.
We are literally in a war with hyperbole.
"Really", "very" (from "verily") and such had similar histories. The intensifier treadmill is real. Myself, I'd say meta-literally was very fun BEFORE dictionaries added it officially -- no intensifier could be greater than saying it actually happened. Now, they ruined the fun.
Start a crowd fund to publish the Orwelexicon. I will gladly contribute.
This is, literally, how the greatest civilizations of the world got their start
Yeah, that use of literally makes me figuratively want to strangle people.
This is why I hate descriptivism
Yeah, no. Also, everyone graduates FROM college or high school. People are dropping the from and it is making me super twitchy!
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