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Actually, the hyperbolic literally has been used for centuries. It's just a more common convention now.

Excuse my pedantry.

All right, I'll cop to hyping the degree to which the erosion of 'literally' is recent! We humans totally love our hyperbole. (But the process is not so far along as for 'really' and 'incredible'.)

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