Posted on 01/28/2018 5:24:23 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Read it and weep, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” lovers: the word "literally" is being banned from an East Village bar.
The much-maligned word is often used to show that something is serious or that one really meant their prior statement. It's a word that can come up multiple times in a conversation, especially when telling stories to friends.
However, the Continental has posted a sign in the front window informing incoming patrons about the new rules. They state that if you use the word "literally" you have five minutes to finish your drink and exit the bar. If you start a sentence by saying “I literally,” you must leave immediately. The owner, Trigger Smith, has clearly had enough of what he calls an “overuse” of the word from the popular TV show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
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Literally?
That's literally like what the Nazis did.
They should ban its improper use, but used correctly, it’s a fine word. It means, “I’m not speaking figuratively, i mean what I say and am using words in their plain sense.”
Even if you use it properly?
Words ending in “LY” are adverbs; helper verbs. If you find yourself using one, then you might consider improving the verb you are helping. I try to eliminate their use as they add to word count without improving what you said.
Having said that, word police are annoying.
I’m literally shaking...
It is “like literally amazing.” :-)
I am uncomfortable with this guy’s name...
Literally not kidding.
I guess I won’t be going to this East Villege Bar.
Litterally.
They should also ban the word “So” when used at the beginning of a sentence.
Trigger Smith is literally triggered by literally?
So, if I tell the bartender that a drink he just served literally burns my throat and makes me cough (so can I get something else, please), I will be kicked out of the bar.
I know that many people use the word “literally” as an emphasis rather than to literally describe an actual situation, but that does not mean that people who literally use the word “literally” in its correct fashion should be criticized.
Is there a good synonym for the word “literally” that has the same sub-meanings and implications (qualities which I think of as “flavor”)? I can look up synonyms, but they either are overused (like “actually”) or they just don’t have the same flavor.
Ban the word “absolutely” as well as a way to answer in the affirmative. SO sick of hearing that. Especially when it’s used multiple times within 4 or 5 sentences.
*going forward*
I have it on good authority that Joe Biden literally cannot utter a sentence without saying literally in it at least twice. Literally!
Yep, one day you ban the word ‘literally’, and the next, you’re marching into Poland.
So if you literally want a bar fight, you sit down and literally order a drink and literally refuse to leave.
POST OF THE DAY!! ROFL!!! Literally laughing my ass off!
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