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Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will survive

  • Written by Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay: Here’s why English will surviveDid your head literally explode? No, but you can say it did.John Lund/Stone via Getty Images

Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb “literally” in a figurative sense, as in, “That movie literally blew my mind.”

But as a linguist who studies how English has changed over the centuries, I can promise...

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