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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
Even ignoring the "language changes" argument, people weren't speaking incorrectly before.
When you say "Man I LOVE it when they fuck up my order at mcdonalds, that must be why they do it every time!" you aren't incorrectly using "love". You're using it sarcastically.
When you say "I literally laughed my ass off" you aren't misusing "literally". You're using hyperbole. Plenty of words are used in a way that is non literal. For some reason people just can't accept that words are used for things other than their literal meaning for the word "literally."
There's nothing here!