http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/13/literally-broken-english-language-definition
This article bases it's argument around the case of the changed semantics of the word 'literally'. With its change in semantic, 'literally' now has multiple definitions in the English language; in the literal sense of something and its opposite; the acknowledgement that that it is not true but is used for emphasis instead. This word and many others like it now hold two contrasting definitions and so semantics are skewed.
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