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It do be like that. Many of them get repeated till they reach a critical point and everyone is sick of them. Some of them are harder to tolerate than others though. I can deal with people ‘checking notes’ here and there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull. Luckily that trend isn’t as prevalent as it used to be back in the day.

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Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull.

I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still

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XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell

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- Odo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That “modern” definition of literally is at least 250 years old. It wasn’t created by the internet, or even any living person.
  
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