• @[email protected]
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    214 days ago

    First Known Use 15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

    You’re own source states the opposite

    • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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      114 days ago

      The opposite of what? I’m curious how you interpreted my words, because that quote does not contradict any claim I intended.

      • @[email protected]
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        214 days ago

        I understood you claimed that the first known use of ”literally” would have been used as ”figuratively”, but in the link it says it was used in a literal sense. But I’m tired so I might have gotten something wrong.

        • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown
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          314 days ago

          Oh, no. I only meant that the use in the figurative sense was more than twice as old as any concerted movement against it. And even that movement is “old”. This isn’t some skibidi Ohio dreamt up by “kids these days”. It has a well established pattern of usage.