>It was your implicit threshold you were setting with your argument, not mine
That wasn't my threshold; that was an example of a confusion that couldn't be disambiguated without clear terms for literal vs figurative; it's just that it had unusually large implications for a scenario that require fast, unambiguous communication. (I guess we don't have to care about these scenarios?)
Your own implicit threshold of "if someone doesn't die because if it, I can fuck up the communicative ability of a language however I feel like" is so thoroughly stupid, I doubt you even believe it yourself, yet feel the need to argue for it anyway.
In any case, I'm less concerned with who makes the best tactical moves than on discerning the best idea presented. As it stands, I don't yet see any justification for "let's get rid of this useful disambiguating feature for literal vs figurative" -- but feel free to keep offering them; maybe your knowledge of "tactics" could come in handy here, thought I doubt it. Tactical arguments don't make a language useful. Rather, substance does.
And any time you ever get around to telling me how to indicate the old meaning of "literally" you just let me know. I get that it's not a real high priority for you right now (based on how you think), and I'm not holding by breath or anything, but it would be really cool if you could pull it off. Thanks.