A good editor, as I learned
back in the days of print, knows the general voice and tone of the authors. I recall good ones and horror stories. Anyway, I only use
literally in its denotation and make fun of people who use it to mean not-literally. A good use of irony is hard to do properly, and can be applied to any word; most uses of
literally don’t pull it off and it comes across as if they don’t know what it means.