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		fckgw 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Mont... Words change. Meanings change. This has always happened an always will. If enough people are ironically using literally, even if unknowingly, then yeah, the meaning will change and we need things like dictionaries to describe this new meaning.

skylurk 5 months ago [–]

You're not wrong, but IIRC "only" has meant "one-like" since old english.

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