The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves
maryjayjay
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Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of "figuratively". Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.
It's their choice
When I was at Qualcomm we had an experimental, internally developed mobile OS that embraced the ubiquity of the browser and the power of apps written for the browser. The code name was b2f, which stood for "boot to Firefox"
When my Jewish roommate told his parents he was dating a gentile they told him he was "thinning the blood"
Mfw my sophomore year in HS is "ancient"
Those automats had a fully staffed kitchen behind them, cooking and placing the food in slots to be bought
Unix
Minix
AIX
Irix
HP/UX
Ultrix
OSF/1
Linux
Those are just the ones I remember because I've used them
Take vitamin b complex and drink something with electrolytes. (It's what plants crave) (Kidding about the Idiocracy joke, do it). Source: recovering alcoholic
If you bought a property in an hoa, YOU are the hoa. Why do so many people have a hard time with that? YOU are the hoa and the hoa elects a board to represent you. If you aren't voting and aren't participating, YOU are the problem
Thank you for that
The more I learn about the concessions made to the southern slave owners I wish the founders hadn't tried so hard to include them in the union. The north and the south were so different it seems like it would be as doomed to failure as jamming all the Balkan states into a single country.
Every time Texas threatens to secede and doesn't I wish we had the choice to vote them out so they could see just how badly they are not the hot shit they think they are.
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Here's a fun list: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/
It literally includes literally 😉