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alt text: A two panel comic. In the first panel there are two buttons labeled “I don’t believe in prescriptivism” and “‘Literally’ cannot mean ‘figuratively’”. A finger hovers between the buttons. In the second panel, the finger’s owner is sweating and wiping his brow, unable to decide.
I’m not saying English is perfectly consistent or that its never happened before, I’m saying why introduce ambiguity that gains nothing? Do we truly not have enough very/really analogs?