• Promethiel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Nearly every word that means something similar to “in actual fact” undergoes this semantic drift (actually, really, etc).

    I looked into this for 3 minutes and found examples in multiple languages.

    Neat.

    New expression-insight remix into the human condition connected; We literally really actually feel the need to be sure we’re understood, no matter the hyperbolic lengths gone to, huh?