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Using a word incorrectly 1,000,001 times shouldn't change the actual dictionary definition of the word.
Must be embarrassing to not understand that living languages evolve.
"Literally" officially meaning "figuratively" radicalized me.
But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.
But that is literally why we have many of the definitions accepted as standard today.
That's so fetch.
Lear Welsh or French. They're both Prescriptive languages where that is (officially) true. English, however, is a descriptive language which means the dictionary is there to record how language is used not to define how it should be used
I think that's polarising because using a weird incorrectly does not change its meaning; it's far more subtle than that