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You MUST Stop FEEDING STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
It's even worse than that. It's quite literally taking food BACK out of their mouths.
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You gotta realize even the dictionary has given up on this one...
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
Because the dictionary covers the practical usage, and the misuse is as common as the actual use. The dictionary definition for litterally includes the formal "in a way that uses the ordinary or primary meaning of a term or expression" and the informal that means the exact opposite "statement or description that is not literally true or possible"
I find it kind of ironic to say it's actual definition for literally includes effectively or it could also mean "not literally"
Merriam Webster hasn't been the academic standard for decades. The Oxford one did not capitulate to trends.
Edit to add: https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=Literally
Hard to judge from your link, as apparently they paywalled it.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/literally
but I'm assuming it's not too different than this. Which also includes
(informal) used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not literally true I literally jumped out of my skin.
"quite literally" would mean there are federal officers or agents in people's homes scraping chewed food out of children's mouths.
I think you mean "virtually taking food BACK out of their mouths."
I think you hit upon an idea they didn't think about. ICE has a new role! Masked food police.
"No soup for you!"
Gives a new meaning to the soup nazi...
Anyone who tries to start that “literally also means figuratively” shit here is going to get shivved. By me.
Literally or figuratively?
But, like, it does. Because language evolves, and history shows most who choose the Old Ways of Language as the hill to die on don't win out.
So many of the word shifts that have conglomerated into new dialects, and eventually new languages, come from people who don't feel like saying a whole word anymore, who combine 2+ words together, who lose the need for a word's specific meaning and let it become something more general, etc.
NO. IT DOES NOT. WORDS DO NOT EVOLVE TO MEAN THEIR OPPOSITE ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY ARE SPECIFIC TO WORDS THEMSELVES. INSANE CHAOS SUPPORTERS GTFO.
SIX IS NOT GOING TO MEAN NINE, EVER. (well okay maybe once for fun, or like in a substitution cipher or something.) “RUN” SHOULD NEVER MEAN “STAND STILL”. STEP AWAY FROM THE BONG.
Quora user Ben Waggoner had this to say about words evolving to mean their opposites:
Responding to the same question, Quora user Jennifer Bransfield offered:
Yes, well, Quora notwithstanding ffs.
What an awful* response.
*Assume whichever meaning you prefer to.
Well it’s literally the 17th century.
Now you've got it!
I didn't mean that literally.
Right, I know; you meant it literally!
See? Bullshit.
Then there are the words that you could think were antonyms but actually have the same meaning, like flammable/inflammable and ravel/unravel.
Republicans when handing out business loans like candy during COVID:
It’s just too difficult to get all that money back. Just forgive all the loans.
Republicans when children are fed with government benefits
GET THAT FUCKING MONEY BACK RIGHT NOW