• @alanjaow
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      27 hours ago

      Webster’s updated “literally”. It now includes the definition “to add emphasis”, since people keep using it incorrectly. They update the dictionary to reflect current usage, so I get it, but it still makes me sad.

      • setsubyou
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        37 hours ago

        If this sort of thing didn’t happen, you would just have claimed that seeing the dictionary entry makes you not hungry. (Original meaning of sad in Old English, cognate with German satt which still has this meaning.)

        • @[email protected]
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          25 hours ago

          There are probably some cases were words changed their meaning from positive to negative. (I know there are in German)