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the wall street journal today literally asking "but what do dead kids mean for the GDP?"
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I don’t think OP knows what literally means. The wsj did not ask the question in the title. It asked a different question.
In English, the plural "there are" is collapsing into the singular "there's" such as "there's five cars over there". A lot of language changes happen this way. It annoys people who think about language.
Oh I’m with you, but I stopped fighting for the word “literally” when the damn dictionaries gave up and added shit like this: