Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
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Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
I really am at my wits end now with the rise of 'like'. It's like, so like, annoying. It's used by inarticulate cunts. It's used because the person speaking either doesn't want to take a breath or cannot find the correct phrase or word to use. Whenever I hear someone using 'like' all the time in a sentence I immediately lose all respect for them and usually turn off. If you're a valley girl from California and blonde I can forgive you, and you can use it once in a while if you must, other than that YOU ARE GOING TO BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME AND SHOT. Like. Oh and I think Geordies use it in their venacular, but they get a free pass (unless you starve horses, then you get shot too).
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Re: Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
carcinogen wrote:I really am at my wits end now with the rise of 'like'. It's like, so like, annoying. It's used by inarticulate cunts. It's used because the person speaking either doesn't want to take a breath or cannot find the correct phrase or word to use. Whenever I hear someone using 'like' all the time in a sentence I immediately lose all respect for them and usually turn off. If you're a valley girl from California and blonde I can forgive you, and you can use it once in a while if you must, other than that YOU ARE GOING TO BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME AND SHOT. Like. Oh and I think Geordies use it in their venacular, but they get a free pass (unless you starve horses, then you get shot too).
Creeping Americanisation, innit?
Just as the proliferation of Aussie soaps got teenagers doing that upwards inflection thing at the end of sentences, which made every sentence sound like a question?
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Re: Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
carcinogen wrote:I really am at my wits end now with the rise of 'like'. It's like, so like, annoying. It's used by inarticulate cunts. It's used because the person speaking either doesn't want to take a breath or cannot find the correct phrase or word to use. Whenever I hear someone using 'like' all the time in a sentence I immediately lose all respect for them and usually turn off. If you're a valley girl from California and blonde I can forgive you, and you can use it once in a while if you must, other than that YOU ARE GOING TO BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME AND SHOT. Like. Oh and I think Geordies use it in their venacular, but they get a free pass (unless you starve horses, then you get shot too).
Agreed.
Shoot a few for me.
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Re: Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
1997 called, wants its topic and responses back
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The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:1997 called, wants its topic and responses back
1977 more err like.
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Reg wrote:The Ghost of Alex Higgins wrote:1997 called, wants its topic and responses back
1977 more err like.
That's the name of the game though.
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subsub wrote:carcinogen wrote:I really am at my wits end now with the rise of 'like'. It's like, so like, annoying. It's used by inarticulate cunts. It's used because the person speaking either doesn't want to take a breath or cannot find the correct phrase or word to use. Whenever I hear someone using 'like' all the time in a sentence I immediately lose all respect for them and usually turn off. If you're a valley girl from California and blonde I can forgive you, and you can use it once in a while if you must, other than that YOU ARE GOING TO BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME AND SHOT. Like. Oh and I think Geordies use it in their venacular, but they get a free pass (unless you starve horses, then you get shot too).
Creeping Americanisation, innit?
Just as the proliferation of Aussie soaps got teenagers doing that upwards inflection thing at the end of sentences, which made every sentence sound like a question?
Just as annoying as that other one where every sentence has the same tune but different lyrics and always ends in a drawn out flat tone. you can swap it directly with the Aussie twang.
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Re: Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
carcinogen wrote:I really am at my wits end now with the rise of 'like'. It's like, so like, annoying. It's used by inarticulate cunts. It's used because the person speaking either doesn't want to take a breath or cannot find the correct phrase or word to use. Whenever I hear someone using 'like' all the time in a sentence I immediately lose all respect for them and usually turn off. If you're a valley girl from California and blonde I can forgive you, and you can use it once in a while if you must, other than that YOU ARE GOING TO BE HUNTED DOWN BY ME AND SHOT. Like. Oh and I think Geordies use it in their venacular, but they get a free pass (unless you starve horses, then you get shot too).
Dont ever go to london again mate, it drives you fucking mad.
They say it way more annoyingly than anyone else in the country as well.
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"Like" is a gateway word into Americanism's.
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There's a scouse bloke called Paul or Steve who is like really terrible for this , on the Radio 5 Call in show (9-10am).
He gets in four "likes" in every sentence.
He gets in four "likes" in every sentence.
6uild 6ack 6etter .
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There are very few people, and even fewer in broadcasting, who pause before they speak in order to arrange their thoughts and then speak in an uninterrupted flow of words. "Like", "you know", "err", "I mean" are examples of the same thing; a mental pause while you arrange what is in your head into a sensible thing to say. The old Archbishop of Canterbury, Michael Ramsey, was a fine example of the "upper-class-stutter", which was doing much the same thing. " ... b-b-b-b-but...", he would say, mentally pausing for breath.
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I use swearing for my punctuation.
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Re: Using 'like' as a substitute for a pause.
As do many others. It's an all-purpose adjective and adverb for the inarticulate.m4rkb wrote:I use swearing for my punctuation.
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The most articulate speakers often swear, but in their cases it adds a bit of colour to the language It's those whose vocabulary only consists of 'like', 'ya know' and other expletives who are the problem.
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I literally know what you mean sort of.
Can’t be arsed.