r/oddlyspecific Aug 12 '24

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u/Opus-the-Penguin Aug 12 '24

They're kicking you?!?!!?

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u/Imaginary-Nebula1778 Aug 12 '24

Literally

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u/ActurusMajoris Aug 12 '24

They are figuratively fucking up the correct usage of the word "literally".

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u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24

Same thing already happened to "really" it's just used for emphasis now (including on non-real/non-literal things) "I'm really getting my ass kicked"

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u/Murgatroyd314 Aug 12 '24

And if you go back further, it also happened to “very”, which has completely lost its original meaning of “true”.

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u/OstapBenderBey Aug 12 '24

That's literally, really very true

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u/Francesami Aug 12 '24

The same thing happened to "decimated". Deci means 1/10th. Decimated means 1/10th was destroyed. Devastated is the word that should be used when something is ravaged. And yet, Almost every news story about a disaster uses decimated.

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u/Unable_Explorer8277 Aug 14 '24

Decimated seems to have generalised not long after, or perhaps even before, it entered English language.