The illiterates have won the figurative battle over "literally," according to cnn.com. In a victory for the "dictionary-as-linguistic-anthropology-as-opposed-to-a-tool-for-pedants" school, several major dictionaries now offer (what is, in effect) "figuratively" as a definition for "literally."
Congratulations, barbarian hordes. You win this round. But you're not getting my snarky superiority complex until you pry it from my cold dead fingers.(Don't give up the fight: get the t-shirt to the right [and which represents all that is right, incidentally], here.)
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