Remember the other day at the movies when you overheard a conversation between two teenagers? The one where you figuratively shot daggers at them with your stare when they used the word literally incorrectly just one too many times? No?
Well, in case you sympathize with this hypothetical person in the movie theatre, you may want to know that the definition of literally has changed. Language is literally being murdered (We’ll let you choose which definition we’re using in this sentence).