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young people now are saying "literally" for everything that certainly does not mean literally/ actually/really

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young people now are saying "literally" for everything that certainly does not mean literally/ actually/really. Like "When I spilled coffee on my shirt I literally died." They did not die So due to pop culture influence, the use of this word is changing. Explore some of the examples of the corpus results/sample sentences and talk about what you see with the word "literally". ) The dictionary doesn't tell you everything you need to know about "vivacious". He talks a lot about how dictionaries suck at really teaching you about a word. So he probably wants you to look at how the word is used in the corpus and see what is surrounding the word that you sort of need to know...something the dictionary doesn't really explain. Just a pattern. Then use the other corpus COHA and see what how people used the word in the 1820's. Then look at how it is used in 2021. Just see if there is anything different.) (just search more examples in the BNC and see how many things it can possibly mean. What does this word combo try to accomplish/discourse in conversation? What are its contraints--restrictions...what can it NOT do? Just talk about these things the best you can)