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Trolling fit bros (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Fourth party here: definitions are descriptive not prescriptive and vary by common usage. Due to current common usage, literally means both literally and figuratively, with the original definition slowly losing ground. So no one is correct.

[–] zarkanian 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If everybody was jumping off a bridge, would you do that, too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Depends on how many survive, but I don't see what that has to do with linguistics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

True, but if you wanted to articulate the concept formerly known as "Literally", how would you do it? I just woke up, and my brain hasn't booted all the way to desktop yet, but I can't immediately think of another word to fill the niche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

we need a /L1 /L2 etc corresponding to which definition of literally we are using? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The closest I can come is "genuinely" but the connotations don't quite fit for all uses.