Two Questions About English Language Weirdness

Two Questions About English Language Weirdness October 11, 2014

1.  How did “radical” move from meaning “rooted” to meaning “utterly unrooted in anything that is normal”?

2. How did “literally” go from meaning,  you know, “literally” to meaning “figuratively” (as in “my head *literally* exploded).


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