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“TST is literally the killer feature for FF …”

No - it is figuratively the killer feature.

If it were literally the killer function this would be a very different discussion.



> literally the (killer feature)

vs

> (literally the killer) feature

A "killer feature" is a phrase with its own meaning so we can treat it as an atom and apply modifiers to it. The order of operations matters, and I posit that the OP placed their imaginary parentheses as I did in my first example.


No. There is no such thing as a "literally killer feature" unless it is some feature that can cause death. A killer feature in this case is exclusively figurative and adding "literally" is wrong to do.


Touché!


Stabbity stabbity!




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