• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Language is evolving. I agree with you but we will lose this fight in the long term ;)

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well yes, but no, but yes.

      I understand that “literally” can be colloquially used to mean “figuratively”, or just as emphasis, but it’ll take a while yet for the prescriptive meaning to be “overridden”, and given how well we record history currently, given context, it will never fully lose that meaning.

      I think the same logic applies here.

      I’m not going to say someone is incorrect in using it in a way that doesn’t fit the prescriptive meaning, but just know that mentally I’ll be very mildly frowning at that.