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While eating out, I was hearing the staff behind the counter talking amongst themselves. Younger crowd but seemingly well groomed, educated, behaved as one might expect at CFA. I kid you not, every fourth word was "like" and I have to wonder if this is pervasive in other languages and cultures or is this just an infection in English? I don't even know where people learn to talk like this. In my experience, it's not something I observe in Asia. Wonder about EU. Or SA. When I was younger, we used to make fun of SFV girls who talked this way. Good times. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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Like, seriously, literally, etc. are said ad nauseum in hopes other idiots think you're cool. It's the pursuit of being cool instead of striving for virtue and pursuing wisdom. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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I'm sure other cultures are the same way. "Like" seems to be a current thing, but I'd also bet that every other generation has their filler or crutch words they had to learn to avoid if they were going to be a polished speaker. For me it was "uh" or "um". We were actually graded on that in a public speaking college class I had to take, and listening to a speaker that hasn't managed to get those under control can be a painful experience. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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Uh, Um is tough - I think that's more instinctive. And I see that in other languages / cultures (at least in Asia). Like seems like a different category though. It's less of a break or pause as though seeking the right word or forming your thought before speaking. It seems to be part of the sentence. "It's like, when I'm going to class, like, there are so many people, like, there too." For this, I can't think of parallel behaviors in Asia. Not sure about other romantic languages like those in EU or SA. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
It's been around for a long time. I remember my father admonishing my sister for saying it constantly back in the early 70s. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Yes. You see some teenagers/young adults in other languages using filler words like that in similar ways. For example, Hispanic teenagers can tend to frequently sprinkle terms like pero/como/asique/pues/etc. throughout their rambling sentences, even when they're not linguistically necessary. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Frequently used as a "fill word" when speaking, or sometimes the beginning of a sentence.  "Like, run for it, Scoob!" There is little reason to use fill words in text or prose, however. Which punctuation is correct? "Tennessee has like 95 counties" or "Tennessee has, like, 95 counties?" | |||
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Here in UK, among the lower orders, it seems to be endemic as a 'speech-gap space-filler'. I find it infuriating, to say the least, however, I'm lucky that nobody I know has this speech foible, as I tend not to mix with those who do. | |||
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I lived / worked in Puerto Rico in the late 1960's. "Entonces" was a similar word, liberally sprinkled in conversation, especially when something was being explained. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
I'll take all the filler words they can hurl out. It's that sing song, upturn at the end of every 'sentence', and vocal fry. All that shite makes me jittery with thoughts of the old ultra violence.  | |||
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