Or just improve your vocabulary.
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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We had a perfectly good word, which people with decent vocabulary used properly, and then people with bad vocabulary ruined it.
Why should those who had a decent vocabulary in the first place improve theirs, instead of the people with the poor vocabulary who ruin the accepted definitions of words improve theirs?
I agree. The word "literally" was literally perfect. It was a binary descriptor. Other people's poor vocabulary ruined it, not the people who used it correctly.
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Exactly
Illiteratly
"Exactly". "Truly". "Literally, in the traditional sense not the post modern sense where it means emphatically or figuratively"
I think we just need to be cutting off the fingers of dictionary editors one by one until they turn it back the way it should be.
Dictionary editors don't establish what is valid in English. English communicators do.
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Fr fr
"widely accepted' by me and my douche teenage friends
People just put extra emphasis or say literally literally
I quite properly literally just wish we didn't have a population that followed illiterate Kardashian misuse of the word.
It has been used that way for hundreds of years so we can't blame it on those social parasites.
I only rarely heard it misused before those maroons (and their ilk) popularized the misuse.
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No cap
For real
Once I found out that that the definition of literally has literally been changed to "literally, but sometimes figuratively", I've switched to objectively and subjectively when describing things, which aren't quite the same but I literally don't have a word anymore that means literally.
So instead of literally you could use objectively. I like that no one is going to use objectively as slang because it's kind of a clunky, obtuse word that doesn't literally roll off the tongue.
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Actually?
The correct answer is to make incorrect usage of the word "literally" socially unacceptable. Be fucking mean about it.
"Literally" used as an intensifier dates back to the 1700s, but the prescriptivist controversy about it is very recent. People can understand that a word can have different meanings and have different uses. Except for prescriptivists, apparently.
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While we're at it can we stop giving books and articles entitlements? I feel like being titled should be enough, I don't know why they need to be entitled.
frfr /s
I will repeat literally twice to convey i mean actually literally. "No, it's literally literally green".
Nah, we already have one.
Just because idiots misuse it...