But like, you know
It's like starting to get annoying you know, like when people seem to feel the need to enter the word like into every sentence they utter. It's like driving me a bit mad. I mean, it's not like its a hard word not to say, but like it seems people just can't stop saying it these days. I happened to watch Rossy over the weekend and like that yank singer, what's her name? Swift? Or something like that just like couldn't stop saying like all the time. Then again, she didn't come across as the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Whatever. (><)
(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 11:20, 6 replies)

On the bus from London to Oxford
I once heard an American postgrad use the word "like" fourteen times in a single sentence. It had become a verbal tic with him - I don't think he had any idea he was doing it, or how stupid it made him sound.
(ubergeekian, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:10, closed)

Tell you what...
When you're in a one to one meeting with someone who is a compulsive 'you know-er' it becomes contagious. You know.
(ed-z, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:17, closed)

Innit.

(ParaSitius is an Optimistic Pessimist, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 12:33, closed)

Try living with teenage children.
Despite my best (and often quasi-fascistic) efforts their vocabulary seems to consist entirely of 'like', 'dunno', 'fine' and 'can I have'. A failure as a parent, me? Probably.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 9 Oct 2012, 13:49, closed)

Yeah?
We have a man who is affiliated with our company who turns up fairly regularly to discuss a future trade-show we're creating, he cannot say even one sentence without ending it "Yeah?" as if his intellect is so vast no-one around him could understand a word he says and he needs confirmation. Yeah?
( SauronWibble I'll hold it, you lick it..., Tue 9 Oct 2012, 14:53, closed)

In fairness she is about 14.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 20:48, closed)