HEEEEEEEELP THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS CHANGING
AN INTENSIFIER IS BECOMING MILDER OVER TIME THIS HAS LITERALLY NEVER HAPPENED
THE MOUNTAIN DEW I DESCRIBED AS ‘AWESOME’ LITERALLY INSPIRED AWE IN ME AND RENEWED MY FAITH IN GOD
I NEED TO LOOK DOWN UPON PEOPLE FOR THINGS I DON’T FULLY UNDERSTAND SO I CAN FEEL SUPERIOR TO SOMEONE
Oops! Except this word is not an intensifier. The word ‘literally’ has a very specific, useful meaning. And when you use it to mean ‘figuratively’, its literal opposite, you look like a fucking moron.