• Klear@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    So why do people only get up in arms over literally? Because it’s the one they lived through?

    They didn’t live through it. It has been used an an exaggeration for more than a century.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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      13 hours ago

      Yes but not widely, and the point is, most people don’t even know awful had a different definition. Argue all you want but the fact there’s any controversy over literally shows we’re living through the main transition of it having one main definition to two.