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I can tell you from experience, they don't.

act like these rules were laid down by God herself,

Up until the 1800s, "ain't" was a proper contraction

Are you attending Lady Margaret's soiree?

It wasn't until the lower classes began to use it

You said "literally" when you meant "figuratively."

That's actually the opposite of what you meant.

as a hyperbolic intensifier for literally hundreds of years.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Vladimir Nabokov.

But those are the English language's greatest writers.

The fact is, there was no documented rule

against using "literally" this way until 1909,

when author Ambrose Bierce wrote a grammar book

♪ To those who use "literally" when you mean "figuratively" ♪

♪ But to affirm the truth of the exaggeration is intolerable♪

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