Literally

• me: ...and so I literally died of laughter!
• Alex: You mean figuratively, otherwise you would be dead.
• me: No, I was using ‘literally’ to hyperbolically intensify my statement. It's a usage that dates back for centuries.
• Alex: But then the original meaning of the word disappears.
• me: Many words have more than one meaning while still retaining their original ones.
• Alex:
• me:
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• Alex: (under breath) Damn descriptivists.