“Literally” is its own antonym! How can this be? | Ask MetaFilter
I hate this. We talk about improper usage a lot, especially how it is kind of exemplified by this usage pattern with ‘literally’.
Here’s some other good links I dug out of a third of the comments on the Ask.Mefi:
My mouth hurts.
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