[Chill Bill]

Originally posted by Great Username

Nah, as opposed to literally believing it, good post though!

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Okay, tell me what you think 'literally' means.

[Shaliydah88]

The first four songs sans BR, but to choose one- Today Was A Fairytale. Never ever ever heard that song.

[Great Username]

Originally posted by Chill Bill

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Okay, tell me what you think 'literally' means.

How did literally come to mean the opposite of what it originally meant, either 'word for word' or 'exactly'? By the late 17th century, 'literally' was being used as an intensifier for true statements. Jane Austen wrote of being 'literally rocked in bed on a stormy night.' In such examples, 'literally' is being used for the sake of emphasis alone. Eventually, though, 'literally' began to be used to intensify statements that were themselves figurative or metaphorical. You can find examples throughout the 19th century

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4988053

"Literally" is just doing the same work as "really" or "honestly" or "actually", emphasising the truth of the statement, not its non-metaphorical nature.

So we're wrong to criticise Jamie Redknapp for saying "literally". Words only mean what people understand them to mean, and no one thinks he means that David Silva can levitate; and even if we are obsessed with etymology and past use, the word has not meant solely "non-metaphorical" for centuries, if it ever really did. We can say we don't like it – I, for example, think that there are plenty of words which mean "really" or "very much", and only one word which does the work "literally" does, and it's nice to keep these things separate. But in the end it's just taste. And, what's more, it's a shibboleth in the second-oldest sense of that word: like pronouncing it "haitch" or using "impact" as a verb, it tells those of us who are snobbish that this person is Not Like Us. So, before you literally get on your high horse about "literally", remember that you're wrong. Literally, and actually, wrong.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/to...rally-correct/

So, in modern usage, 'literally' can be used as an emphasiser. Cool try though, now back on topic please!

[itsAllen]

I forgot about a lot of these. lol

[Chill Bill]

Technically correct, but it's still bad writing. You could get the point across just fine if you just said, "I doubt that." Brevity is the soul of wit.

[Marq]

Today Was A Fairytale.

Tik Tok blocked so many songs.

[Poe Dameron]

Of course some people would say Bad Romance

I've never heard of the Taylor song

[Retro]

"BedRock".

[Great Username]

Originally posted by Chill Bill

Technically correct, but it's still bad writing

I'm sure your linguistic talents extend beyond my wildest dreams, but I think I'll continue to use the word in the same manner as Charles Dickens ("His looks were very haggard, and his limbs and body literally worn to the bone"), Louisa May Alcott ("the land literally flowed with milk and honey"), and Jane Austen ("literally rocked in bed on a stormy night"), even if it means living without your validation.

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Anyway, 'Bad Romance' is very forgotten IMO!

[EdgeOfAddiction]

Today Was A Fariytale. And to think that it could have reached #1 over Love Story and You Belong With Me. That's followed by We Are The World.

Originally posted by MarryTheMonster

Young Money f/ Lloyd, "BedRock"

"who?"

One of the greatest jams of that summer. It is still amazing.

[Aden]

BedRock. So many good songs were blocked.

[Rainsford]

Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance"
Great Username, Icannot, Monceau, rihannasbe$tfrnd

[jpsketch]

Today Was a Fairytale, since this is the first time I'm hearing about this song...

[MarryTheMonster]

Originally posted by Apocalypso

Young Money = Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Tyga and company

"Today Was a Fairytale" obvs.

If this is directed at me, than I meant "who" or "what" to the song, not the artists. I dunno the song at all.

[RomanNavy]

Tik Tok's impact
There are many forgettable songs there.
Voted for Boyfriend by Bieber tho

And BYE at the votes for Bed Rock.
Iconic label collab which was huge.

[Gomez]

Originally posted by umichgrad07

The fact that some people can't take off their stan goggles and vote for the most logical answer(s)

Just wondering, what do you think the most logic answer is? I voted the Haiti one simply because it's the only one from that list that I can't remember but I'm not American so maybe I'm incorrect.

[thefreak]

Originally posted by Scuba_Dive

Wide Awake is pretty forgotten.

And yet it just crossed 3 millions sales.

[madonnas]

We are the World, DUH

[thefreak]

Originally posted by Gomez

Just wondering, what do you think the most logic answer is?

He meant that a certain fanbase always rushes into such polls to vote for the same person over and over again.



Probably because they can't stand the fact that most other fanbases won't vote for it.

[Chill Bill]

Originally posted by Great Username

I'm sure your linguistic talents extend beyond my wildest dreams,

Well, at least you admit it.

but I think I'll continue to use the word in the same manner as Charles Dickens ("His looks were very haggard, and his limbs and body literally worn to the bone"), Louisa May Alcott ("the land literally flowed with milk and honey"), and Jane Austen ("literally rocked in bed on a stormy night"), even if it means living without your validation.

But you didn't use it in the same manner as any of those authors. Here's the Alcott quote in its original context:

Then Jo and Meg, with a detachment of the bigger boys, set forth the supper on the grass, for an out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day. The land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions, for the lads were not required to sit at table, but allowed to partake of refreshment as they liked freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

In this context, the word 'literally' is used with a purpose. The phrase 'flowing with milk and honey' is an idiom referring to a land's agricultural richness, but in this context, it's used to refer to the literal milk and honey being served at the picnic.

"Literally worn to the bone" and "literally rocked the bed" also work, because those phrases alone can often be taken as hyperbolic. By using 'literally', Dickens clarifies that the man was so worn that he actually could see his bone.

Austen uses the word the same way. Without it, "the storm rocked the bed" could just be taken to mean, "the storm was really loud and violent." The word 'literally' tells the reader that the bed was actually shaking.

You see? In all of those instances, the word 'literally' contributes to the sentence by changing its meaning. 'I literally doubt that,' on the other hand, means the exact same thing as 'I doubt that'.

Buuuuut, since you want me to get back on topic, I'll just put in my two cents and say that I can barely remember two lines from Today Was a Fairytale.