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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Like, literally, you know?
I have clearly had enough of the overuse of the word "trigger", except in the context of firearms or electronic circuitry. I have literally never watched "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" (whoever they are), and never will.
When they say one has to leave “immediately” if they use the L-word, do they mean that figuratively or literally?
But it’s literally OK to begin every sentence with, “Fust ovall...”...
A silly peeve for a business such as a bar.
In New York there is the “soup Nazi” and apparently a few word Nazi’s as well.
I literally shot out of my chair like a cannonball! When, I read this!
That reminds me of a song about another bar, but with a fine instead of ejection and whining instead of “literally”:
Five Dollar fine
We’re a fun lovin’ crowd, kinda rowdy and loud,
Our jukebox won’t play no sad songs,
So don’t come in here and cry in your beer,
Cause we don’t care about who done who wrong.
CHORUS
We got a five dollar fine for whinin’
We’ll tell you before you come in.
And if it ain’t on your mind to have a good time,
Y’all come back and see us again.
Well, we don’t really care about your clothes or your hair,
This party is open to all.
Yah we like a good joke and its alright to smoke,
we got just one rule on the wall.
CHORUS
Now there’s too many fools makin’ too many rules,
that’s one thing you can’t say about us.
Cause we all get along when we sing the same song
there’s just one thing that causes a fuss.
CHORUS x 2
“Like” and “actually” should also be on their list.
The bar would literally erupt in violence of the word “like” was banned.
The funniest use I’ve heard of the word was on a radio show about a year ago. The guy said, ‘They literally shot themselves in the foot... So to speak.’
yuck, had no idea where this term became popularized. Good God, these people have infiltrated every level of culture.
I’m afraid I too, have fallen prey to the word “literally” for effect.
I want to see the phrase “game changer” banned.
Shift to “non-virtual”.
I’m okay with it, they should add “exactly” to the list, a word I find much more irritating, makes me cringe and want to punch something.
The one that confuses me is “Yeah, no” to begin a reply to a question. It can’t be both.
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