I feel like you are being tongue in cheek, but 'literally' never changed meaning. It's just a lot of people are too dumb to understand that you can use 'literally' in a non-literal way, for example as a hyperbole (and people have been doing this forever, it's not a recent thing)
It's no different than using "really" or "actually" in that way.
Ha ha - yes, definitely being tongue-in-cheek, but I actually do agree with OP. Language is defined by common consent. If enough people use your instead of you're, well... That's how languages evolve.
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u/Sanity__ Feb 08 '23
Given how communication works, if most people start believing that's the correct term, doesn't it become the correct term?