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		peterashford 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ai;dr Using literally to mean figuratively goes back hundreds of years

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duskwuff 9 days ago [–]

Not to mention "seriously", "really", "truly", "very", "verily", etc. There's a long history of using words related to truth as intensifiers in English.

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