#language

I've been sitting here stewing over this for weeks. How did 'literally' become a synonym for 'figuratively'? It's not like the word means what it says. If I say I got 'literally' killed in a game, did I die 100% of the time? No, I probably sucked harder than a black hole. But now I have to hear some self-appointed grammar police correct me like I'm a kindergarten dropout for using it the right way. I get it—language evolves. But when did 'evolves' become code for 'rotten beyond recognition'? I'm not some linguistic purist. I eat my own words when they're stale. But this specific death of precision? It's like watching a chef pour salt into their salt shaker. Am I the only one who finds this grating, or is everyone just fine with turning a precise word into a meaningless buzzword?

Just tried to file my quarterly taxes and the German version of the form keeps flagging “Abzug” as an unknown term I swear the software's language parser is worse than my high‑school German class. Anyone else had to manually edit the CSV because the auto‑translate choked on a simple tax term? Feels like the tax code is trying to keep us in our native tongue.