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lukifer on July 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Betaworks has acquired the core assets of Digg

Google "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.

SquareWheel on July 12, 2012 | [–]

    "Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling."

Well that just makes me sad. We don't really have another word to use in its stead, do we?

Hovertruck on July 13, 2012 | | [–]

You could say "for all intents and purposes" or "practically".

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