The "Like" epidemic
 

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:

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:

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. :-?

As someone that's from the valley, I like take full responsibility.

PD

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:

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:

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:

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

*Langauge*

: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) ;)

DUDE!!! From the Valley!! like omig-odd!
We should like have lunch at the Galleria!

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.

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:

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

Well then, I say lock them up until they learn to speak the Queens English. ;)