Let’s not start that up. Mark Twain used “literally” as an intensifier in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. It is the destiny of all adverbs to eventually be intensifiers.
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Let’s not start that up. Mark Twain used “literally” as an intensifier in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876. It is the destiny of all adverbs to eventually be intensifiers.