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by 34679 273 days ago
That's literally not how the word "literally" works.
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jcranmer 273 days ago
It literally is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
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superblas 273 days ago
That’s literally how the English language works. It literally evolves
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card_zero 273 days ago
It doesn't proliferate new forms without selection, that's not how evolution works.

(Heh, I see "proliferate" itself is a back-formation.)

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