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Onkel Neal
08-20-06, 07:20 PM
Has anyone noticed the whole English speaking world sounds like a *#*$@*&* valley girl? Most conversations are punctuated with the word "like" , averaging one "like" for every 12 words. It's really prevalent among kids and teen-agers, but many, many adults do this, too. It's the verbal equivalent of chewing with one's mouth open. :down:
Sea Demon
08-20-06, 07:29 PM
Yes, I do notice that. All my younger cousins do this. The whole language is going to H.E. (double hockey sticks). Another thing alot of people use is "Ya' know what I'm sayin'" in between some of their sentences. That one drives me crazy. One of our ground system guys who sits on the console behind me does this everytime I'm asking for outages.:damn:
Torplexed
08-20-06, 07:33 PM
I think 'like' has become the new 'umm.' That little time-filler utterance used while you try to engage your brain to your vocal chords. :-?
PeriscopeDepth
08-20-06, 08:05 PM
As someone that's from the valley, I like take full responsibility.
PD
Camaero
08-20-06, 08:14 PM
Like I am like from the valley too but like I moved to the central coast so like now I do not live in the like valley n stuff.:know:
SubSerpent
08-20-06, 08:36 PM
Has anyone noticed the whole English speaking world sounds like a *#*$@*&* valley girl? Most conversations are punctuated with the word "like" , averaging one "like" for every 12 words. It's really prevalent among kids and teen-agers, but many, many adults do this, too. It's the verbal equivalent of chewing with one's mouth open. :down:
Like what are you saying? Like that is the most outrageous thing like I've ever heard.
Gotta thank those dumb blond bimbos from Cali for starting that. I think they call it LIKE Bimbonics or something LIKE that!!!
:rotfl:
Guys, guys, guys. All those "like"s, "You know"s and "Um"s are called "Vocalized Pauses". Don't you remember anything from High School speech class? :D
But I do think that all the likes are getting absurd. Sometimes in class, my friends and I listen to what a girl is saying, counting how many times she says "like" in her couple of sentences. Usually, the ratio is 5 or 6:1 in words. What is this world coming to? :doh:
SubSerpent
08-20-06, 09:05 PM
* Bort']Guys, guys, guys. All those "like"s, "You know"s and "Um"s are called "Vocalized Pauses". Don't you remember anything from High School speech class? :D
But I do think that all the likes are getting absurd. Sometimes in class, my friends and I listen to what a girl is saying, counting how many times she says "like" in her couple of sentences. Usually, the ratio is 5 or 6:1 in words. What is this world coming to? :doh:
You mean 1 in 5 or 6 words don't you?
Not 5 or 6 in 1
That would be like like like like like (like) this! :rotfl:
kiwi_2005
08-20-06, 09:19 PM
The "like" saying hasn't reached our shores yet. Its still "and umm" or "yeah" but not "like".
Best medicine for that is to speak right back them for 5 minutes straight.
Use only the words, "You know", "Like", "Um", "I don't know", "Kinda like", "You know what I mean?".
Even the dumbest bastard catches on eventually.:rotfl:
Yeah, but, no, but, yeah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljv8fBNv7uI&mode=related&search=)
*Langauge*
Yahoshua
08-21-06, 01:31 AM
:doh:
great voice acting though.
It's just a fad that the young go through I know it's a pain in the rear end but you should rise above this hogwash. After all it's only there to get on your nerves and sooner or latter they realise they sound :88) and grow out of it.
(We Hope) ;)
As someone that's from the valley, I like take full responsibility.
PD
DUDE!!! From the Valley!! like omig-odd!
We should like have lunch at the Galleria!
It's just a fad that the young go through...
Sorry, but this is untrue. You can see it in every day examples.
Those young folks are going to grow up and take jobs like reporting the news where they can show up at accidents and throw out inane observations like, "That car was travelling at a high rate of speed."
Or, make football players into footballers because they never graduated primary school English so they never learned that adding 'er' to the end of a word isn't always the correct spelling.
Sailor Steve
08-21-06, 05:14 PM
I saw a commercial for something (who remembers what?) several years ago, and featured a very bored brunette trying to distract herself while her blonde friend related the following conversation:
"He was all like 'No Way', and I was like 'Way'; so he was like 'NO WAY!', and I was like 'WAAAY!', so he was like 'NO WAY!', and I was like..."
My personal peeve: 'Impact' is not a verb. The plane did not 'impact' the ground. Global warming does not 'impact' life on Earth. It may have an impact, but it 'affects' life on Earth.
Yeah, I am annoyed how some words are 'verbified' [made into a verb] while others are 'nounified' simply because the idiot speaker of them cannot tell the difference!
Talk about "dumbing down" to the lowest denominator.... :damn:
My personal peeve: 'Impact' is not a verb. The plane did not 'impact' the ground. Global warming does not 'impact' life on Earth. It may have an impact, but it 'affects' life on Earth.
You can try to "out-dumb" the dummies by really overdoing it.
When he abuses the language like that, but repeat it back to him even more grossly absurd than the way he used it.
If he says, "The plane did not 'impact' the ground."
You can ask, "So, you say that the plane did not 'impactualize' the ground?"
Of course, he'll correct you and say it isn't a word. Whereby, you can tell him the same with his use of 'impact'. :arrgh!:
even the venerable old BBC news is starting to let the side down....
it's scaring the p*ss out of me..not that i'm any bodys version of shakespear but, i do not like to hear the word like used out of context...sports commentators who say "yeh..?" at the end of very sentence are rapidly becoming a pet hate allso...are they asking me if i agree with them...? are they trying to start an argument..? for whom is the implied question meant..? his fellow commentator..? a passing rabbit..?
a rabbit passing..?
or is he just attempting to rea-sure the viewer that he (the commentator) has an infallible font of knowledge and experience in the field..yet is so insecure about it that he has to ask for comfirmation of this at the end of his every statement..makes no sense to me...lol...:rotfl:
if we carry on like this ..we will be back making grunting noises and swinging from trees fighting each other for bannanas eventually
It's just a fad that the young go through...
Sorry, but this is untrue. You can see it in every day examples.
Well then, I say lock them up until they learn to speak the Queens English. ;)
It's just a fad that the young go through...
Sorry, but this is untrue. You can see it in every day examples.
Well then, I say lock them up until they learn to speak the Queens English. ;)
Like.. thats how they talk in west hollywood! :huh:
Sailor Steve
08-22-06, 11:11 AM
I just remembered a good one: back in 1992 there was a major earthquake in San Francisco, which levelled several neighborhoods and a freeway overpass. The female reporter was a perfect example of what Rush Limbaugh likes to call "infobabes". When she was reporting on the status of rescue operations she let slip this glorious flub: "We are efforting to make contact with the rescue station..."
I don't know but it's funny when a reporter slips up. :lol:
The Avon Lady
08-22-06, 01:06 PM
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/6500/0ef1.jpg
SUBMAN1
08-22-06, 01:16 PM
Has anyone noticed the whole English speaking world sounds like a *#*$@*&* valley girl? Most conversations are punctuated with the word "like" , averaging one "like" for every 12 words. It's really prevalent among kids and teen-agers, but many, many adults do this, too. It's the verbal equivalent of chewing with one's mouth open. :down:
Like, whats the problem? :p
Sailor Steve
08-22-06, 05:12 PM
Avon, that's like so kewl! Like, totally awesome.
Thanks for sharing that, fer sure.
Wim Libaers
08-22-06, 05:15 PM
My personal peeve: 'Impact' is not a verb. The plane did not 'impact' the ground. Global warming does not 'impact' life on Earth. It may have an impact, but it 'affects' life on Earth.
Well, it has been used as a verb for a pretty long time, but many people do not like it.
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0165.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/impact.html
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Impact%20is%20not%20a%20verb!
Sailor Steve
08-22-06, 05:27 PM
Interesting, especially the Bartleby reference that 'contact' is now readily accepted as a verb. I understand that language changes constantly, and my generation's misuse will be the next generation's accepted usage. It just drives the anal-retentive among us crazy.
Wim Libaers
08-22-06, 05:51 PM
I sometimes have the same feeling when I see people of my own generation (I'm 24 years old) who make serious grammatical errors.
Yahoshua
08-22-06, 06:44 PM
du u men lke spellng?
fonix lerned me gud. :yep:
There are times I lament the removal of the Reputation function. :yep:
I certainly would be handing out tons of it on this thread! :rotfl:
What bugs me is when people end every sentance with an interogative whether it is or not.
"So, we were going downtown?, like, to see the show? and on the way?, it started to rain?
Argh!:damn:
Avon, that's like so kewl! Like, totally awesome.
Thanks for sharing that, fer sure.
There is ACTUALLY a Harpoon forum where the idiots talk JUST LIKE THAT! :nope:
The company's tech rep actually responds to support questions with, "Dude..." and "Man...."
Sometimes, I feel that I've dropped into an episode of Fast Times at Ridgmont High. :damn:
These are thirty-something-year-olds trying to sound cool! The most pathetic thing I've seen in awhile. One guy is referred to as being the 'baddest pimp daddy in town' :rotfl:
What bugs me is when people end every sentance with an interogative whether it is or not.
"So, we were going downtown?, like, to see the show? and on the way?, it started to rain?
Argh!:damn:
How about this.
We were going downtown to see the show, unfortunate on the way it started to rain.
One thing that really bugs me is when people keep saying right. :damn:
EG
Right now, I got you all here right, to tell you this right, first the good news right, then the bad right, right after I tell you everything right, I shall open the floor up right, for questions right. OK right here we go right.............
I used to have a boss who could not stop saying right. :damn:
You guys left out our glorious Canadianism "eh" eh? So you know what I'm takin aboot eh? Canucks use that word all the friggin time eh. Like look at this eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ZVx-PADJU
or this eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh4k3L0WrEE
Take off eh?
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