Literally

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"Literally" literally means in actuality, not figurative but real. I
hear news commentators and others use the word often merely as an
intensifier. I find it grating and sometimes ludicrous, sometimes
reducing clarity. Some linguists call this type of word a “contranym”.
Some speakers use it to mean what it meant in an earlier time, some use
it to mean the opposite of its earlier meaning. We don’t complain when
a person replaces "literally" with “really“, as an intensifier.
However, it almost never improves a sentence even if it is used to mean
“actually“, just as “actually“ and “really” usually make a sentence
windy and do not improve understanding. Intensifiers generally add
little but wind to a sentence.

Really!
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