Oh, I mean the āfightā the person Iām replying to is suggesting, that dictionaries should be prescriptive (state how English should be, in this case arguing that āliteralā shouldnāt be a valid word to use when youāre not being literal in the traditional sense), versus being descriptive (what dictionaries currently are, describing the language as itās used without any assertions about how it āshouldā be).
Dictionaries have been adamantly descriptive since their inception, so theyāre not at all doing what glitchdx is suggesting (thus literal having a secondary definition as an intensifier), and Iām arguing for the status quo.
Oh, I mean the āfightā the person Iām replying to is suggesting, that dictionaries should be prescriptive (state how English should be, in this case arguing that āliteralā shouldnāt be a valid word to use when youāre not being literal in the traditional sense), versus being descriptive (what dictionaries currently are, describing the language as itās used without any assertions about how it āshouldā be).
Dictionaries have been adamantly descriptive since their inception, so theyāre not at all doing what glitchdx is suggesting (thus literal having a secondary definition as an intensifier), and Iām arguing for the status quo.