I don't like "like"

[Super_Dave_D]

I like don't like 'Basically'!! I sat through an executive business review last week and the presenter used 'basically' so many times that I started making marks for every time. 26 times in an hour is basically too many times!!!! It was basically a bad meeting!!

[BeyGon]

I'm going to like, do a latte, and like, I think I will do a Blueberry Muffin and we'll like do the ice tea with that.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D

I like don't like 'Basically'!!

Personally, I basically don't like 'basically' either. But, personally, I think it has it's place, like, if it's used correctly.

And, personally, I think that, basically, it's irritating when people always preface what is obviously their personal feeling, opinion or, like, whatever, with 'personally'.

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by ckissick

If you and the rest of the family interupt your girl with a loud LIKE every time she says it, she will find it very annoying. The only way to stop this will be to stop saying "like".

That's what I did with my 16 yr old plus getting her to slow her speech down to concentrate on not using it. It was "like" and "goes" instead of "said".

Funny that my 18 yr old didn't go through this. It also has a lot to do with the group of friends and if their parents don't work on correcting the problem.

[stealthn]

The one that does it for me is "My bad", I just want to slap the stupid out of the people that say it.

[Jess]

I'd gladly trade you several "likes" for the "I know...righhhttt" that my twelve year old daughter ends most sentences with. She's been in a gifted program throughout school but this drives me crazy. I hear it from most women under thirty around here.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by stealthn

The one that does it for me is "My bad", I just want to slap the stupid out of the people that say it.

I can't stand hater or bro. It drives me nuts

[Brando]

Originally Posted by look 171

I can't stand hater or bro. It drives me nuts

lol umad bro?

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by look 171

I can't stand hater or bro. It drives me nuts

You a hater hater bro! That be you bad. Know whum sayin'?

[slodave]

Originally Posted by ckissick

In 8th grade there were a few kids who said "you know" all the time. The teacher instructed everyone in the class to blurt out "you know" every time we heard it, thereby interupting the speaker. They stopped saying "you know" before the week was out.

If you and the rest of the family interupt your girl with a loud LIKE every time she says it, she will find it very annoying. The only way to stop this will be to stop saying "like".

This.. My dad did this to me. It does work.

[livi]

Funny. Every language have the same evolution of stereotype youngster language. The Swedish language is heavily influenced by the English language. One word that seem to find its way into every other sentence nowadays is "chill". Everything is "chill".

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by livi

...One word that seem to find its way into every other sentence nowadays is "chill". Everything is "chill".

Maybe that particular word because of your climate? Did 'chill' diminish, to any degree, 'cool'?

Thousands of Swedish words find their way into everyday English everyday here in the US.

[livi]

As far as I understand "chill" in Sweden means alright/cool/no problems and they used it in a sentence like "It is chill".
No, the climate doesn´t seem relevant.
Swedish words into English?

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by livi

As far as I understand "chill" in Sweden means alright/cool/no problems and they used it in a sentence like "It is chill".
No, the climate doesn´t seem relevant.
Swedish words into English?

Just kidding about climate.

We have an expression, 'Cool down, or off' which means, 'calm down' or 'get over your anger'. That expression references 'heat' as in 'hot temper' and predates today's vernacular use of 'cool' by many years.

The vernacular 'cool', rather than temperature per se, except in the old phrase, 'cool, calm and collected', can mean 'interesting', 'desirable', etc. as well as 'acceptable' or 'safe', e.g., You can let him come in, he's cool'.

'Chill' references heat and began as 'chill out' as in 'cool off'. But language is always changing and now one may hear 'that's chill' in place of 'that's cool'.

[DanielDudley]

Like, whatever.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

Like, whatever.

No, not whatever. I ain't cool with chill. You cool wit dat?

[livi]

Thats fluff!

[cmccuist]

I have two daughters - a doctor and a lawyer! And they use "like" repeatedly. My son, an engineer, does not. All those extra words - like, ya know, basically, like I said, um... Can be eliminated with some effort. I heard an interview with Dwayne Wade the other day and he started every sentence with "obviously ". And he seems to be pretty smart.

Over here, in the Kingdom, they say the word "yanni" (like the singer) as filler. I didn't understand at first why everyone was calling me Yanni, but that's their "like."

[livi]

I just had a patient who´s father is from Saudi Arabia. Pulled up in a Merc S600.

I should have said: Yanni! Thats a cool ride, bro!

[GH85Carrera]

The word that buges me most is goes instead of said.