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[????]

Why does every and I mean EVERY middle class white kid in their 20s on the bus use 'like' every third or fourth word it's like they are all like Vicky pollard like" SHUT UP, LIKE, SPEAK PROPA!

[Huguenot]

Same reason middle aged men go uuuUUUUUUHHHHHHMMMM in the middle of their sentences - to prevent other people butting in when they need time to think. It's a filler word.

Used to be 'innit', d'innit?

In Singers they go 'laaaa'.

The kids won't even notice they are saying it in the same way that nobody realises they say 'uuumm' every seven or eight words until you record them and play it back.

If you're really interested, it was traced back to California's 'Valley Girl' speak - as brought to the world in the 1995 film 'Clueless'. It's white, middle class, ditzy and materialistic.

[El Pibe]

'he was like' has sadly more or less supplanted 'he said' amongst the younger demographic and has infected everyone else.

I catch myself doing it and I'm like 'nooooooo'.

[Jeremy]

I use the word too often. I'm aware that it makes me sound like a moron.

[bon3yard]

Modern lifes rubbish.

[steveo]

Like 1982 Huge

Valley Girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB8JVTDOK-g

[maxxi]

It's like footballers, you know, like, saying obviously, you know, and obviously, you know, it's like, so annoying obviously. You know.

[steveo]

Literally

[Otta]

steveo Wrote:

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> Like 1982 Huge

>

> Valley Girl.

>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB8JVTDOK-g

Love that song! Isn't that Frank's daughter doing the voice?

[El Pibe]

steveo Wrote:

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> Literally

http://xkcd.com/725/

http://xkcd.com/1108/

[MrBen]

???? Wrote:

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> Why does every and I mean EVERY middle class white

> kid in their 20s on the bus use 'like' every third

> or fourth word it's like they are all like Vicky

> pollard like" SHUT UP, LIKE, SPEAK PROPA!

Spoken like a true middle class dad.

[????]

;)

[????]

El Pibe's got the nuance i especially dislike spot on

"So he says, like, 'where are you going?' and i say, like 'I'm like going downn the street' but it's obvious because I'm like going down the street. I'm thinking like er is he stupid or something"

[Otta]

It's bare annoying!

[titch juicy]

Language evolves and changes.

I'm sure there are things we said when we were kids that curmudgeonly old miserablists disapproved of.

[????]

Inded. my mum used to despair Of my "know what I mean" at the end of any sentence in the late70s early 80s, know what I mean.

[Alan Medic]

I'm so boring, I hate so many things being 'cool'.

[Otta]

"Wicked".

[Ridgley]

I suppose it not much diffrent than street talk "ya get me"

[holloway]

when people say 'me personally' before saying something about themselves drives me up the wall. who the hell else would they be talking about in the context of themselves?? completely unnecessary.

[steveo]

My old man used to get annoyed when I referred to him as, 'My old man.'

[Ridgley]

I agree with you totally but that is how a lot of young teenagers are speaking to each other these days, the cockney way of speaking is dying out and this is what is replacing it.

[????]

My nans vernacular was littered with

Stone the Crows

Crackers (for mad)

and propa Cor Blimeys

...they probably drove her mum crackers

[Gidget]

Saying obviously........is it really obvious? No, not usually, unless you can read minds or know someone intimately.

[Brendan]

I think it?s awful. The middle classes using the busses!