Since it’s widely accepted that the word “literally” can be used to add emphasis, we need another word that can be used when you want to make it clear that you really mean “literally” in the original sense.

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    9 days ago

    I tried that with “irony”. People don’t give a fuck, they just want to randomly use words to seem smart.

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        9 days ago

        People who don’t feel very dumb and just use random words aren’t shamed by telling them they are dumb for using random words.

        They just come back at you with the old speech “did you know language evolves 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔”

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          9 days ago

          Linguistic drift happens over generations, that’s just illiteracy, and if they’re too stupid to feel shame they definitely don’t know anything about that anyway

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              9 days ago

              Lol just fyi you’re not me, if I were having a conversation with myself it wouldn’t be half as stupid as this