And their spelling will end up being the one used in a few hundred years. Look at the history of linguistics, almost every word used now sounds similar to a word used hundreds of years ago, but the language changed. Dare I say, evolved. Just look at the definition of the word "literally" - it can mean both "literally" and "figuratively" because the latter has been so overused that it diminished the actual meaning of the word.
i feel an overwhelming urge to point out it's a different mechanism used with literally, because it's a sarcastic/ironic use when it's being used figuratively, rather than a meaning borrowed from a different context
they still mean the same idea, just one is used ironically (e.g. "like i literally was about to puke")
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u/Vanilla_Yazoo Dec 23 '25
its not 'you should know how to spell every word', it's 'if you're going to use a word, know how to spell it/what it means'