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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by TeMPOraL on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:45AM (#38040046)
Literally is literally a point. Figuratively is a point only figuratively, literally it is a continuum. If you're not using literally to literally mean literally, you are literally using it to mean figuratively.
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by marcosdumay on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:13PM (#38041145)
People are just not literally-absolutists. They believe literally exists in a continuum.

That means they disagree with you on the definition of the word, but it doesn't make it a synonym of figuratively.

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by dragonwriter on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:14PM (#38044688)
No, if you aren't using it to mean literally, you are using it figuratively, but not necessarily (or ever, IME) to mean figuratively (usually as an intensifier to a statement that is expected to be understood as figurative from context.)
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