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.