Anybody who uses literally as an intensifier is figuratively the cancer that is killing our mother tongue.
Except that this 'controversial' usage of 'literally' is not exactly new (and not just in spoken English but in written English, haha, even some
formal written English at that). And even if it was, what would be the problem? I mean,
seriously now. The meaning is clear enough, and the purpose of language is to communicate. This sort of linguistic extremism is generally an attempt to impose prestige dialects on the majority of the population (in all Anglophone countries) who do not speak the relevant prestige dialect. Or, failing that, to shame them into an understanding that they are
indeed social inferiors.
