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Fourth party here: definitions are descriptive not prescriptive and vary by common usage. Due to current common usage, literally means both literally and figuratively, with the original definition slowly losing ground. So no one is correct.
True, but if you wanted to articulate the concept formerly known as "Literally", how would you do it? I just woke up, and my brain hasn't booted all the way to desktop yet, but I can't immediately think of another word to fill the niche.
we need a /L1 /L2 etc corresponding to which definition of literally we are using? /s
The closest I can come is "genuinely" but the connotations don't quite fit for all uses.
If everybody was jumping off a bridge, would you do that, too?
Depends on how many survive, but I don't see what that has to do with linguistics.