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alt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled "I don't believe in prescriptivism" and "'Literally' cannot mean 'figuratively'". A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger's owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.
This exactly. You can have a different meaning for a word if there's a good reason for it. I have never heard a justification for this other than "Language changes, get over it lol"