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Definition of literally that isn't literal
This is going to give grammarians a headache, literalists a migraine and language nerds a nervous breakdown.
The definition of literally is no longer the literal definition of literally.
Gizmodo has discovered Google's definition for literally includes this: "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling."
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American English now displays its users' growing contempt for obtaining education white attending colleges and universities to get degrees.
It is not PC to use these words correctly:
Decimate
May
Might
Literally
Pardon
Excuse
Two more politically offensive usages to avoid:
"Speak to," when the object is a person: one speaks only to issues.
"Disrespect," as a noun. Disrespect is a verb. "Dis" is a preferable verb, as one avoids arrogance and overly big words.
I do not agree with Google's definition.
Rather a literal deviation from a literal connotation of a word literally speaking. Now am i going or coming?
Speaking and writing American is convenient as it liberates one from the age old English shackles of grammar , phonetics and such impediments.
And it facilitates some very ignorant-looking written communications. For instance, text speak; not all progress is actually progress.
And once again: definitions are expanded all the time: see the word "marriage".