New York bar announces it will no longer tolerate customers use of the word 'literally'
My bar, my rules seems to be the motto of the Continental Bar in New York's East Village, which passed a linguistic ban on the word "literally". People have been using the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" for almost 250 years - there's *adopts Chris Traeger voice* lit-rally no way they're stopping anytime soon.
If you actually start a sentence with "literally" you must leave immediately!
"This is the most overused, annoying word in the English language and we will not tolerate it. Stop Kardashianism now!" it reads.
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"I was a little anxious because it happens in my speech all the time I've said "literally" twice and so far they haven't thrown me out,"Michael Wursthorn, Continental customer, told PIX11". ("This thing is going global!" he wrote in a letter to Grub yesterday, calling the situation "too amusing.") Trigger also said that he doesn't plan to boot violators for real; he's making fun of slang that he dislikes, and his patrons "get it".
"It's not just millennials". "What's annoying is people aren't even aware they're saying it. I guess people will find an issue in anything".
Continental set to close for good on July 1 and that's making lots of customers very sad, literally. The building space was sold to developers for new office space.
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