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LeeH 08-28-2011 03:03 PM

I don't like "like"
 
My 11 year old's use of the word "like" has increased dramatically this year. Some of her best friends can use it 20 times in, what should be, a 10 word sentence. Please tell me there's a cure! :mad:

Mark Henry 08-28-2011 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by LeeH (Post 6222947)
My like 11 year old's use of the word "like" has like increased like dramatically this year. Like some of her best friends can use it like 20 times in like, what should be like, a 10 word sentence. Like please tell me there's like a cure! :mad:like

Like fixed it ya :D

Rick V 08-28-2011 03:10 PM

Damnit Mark you like beat me to it

Mark Henry 08-28-2011 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by rick v (Post 6222966)
damnit mark you like beat me to it

;)

968rz 08-28-2011 03:34 PM

1 year more of being locked in her room for every like used out of context.

If your a dad like me the lock in starts at age 12 and will last till 30, add to that every like and she'll be safe forever.

;)

p911dad 08-28-2011 03:43 PM

Like we say in Canada,:rolleyes: eh?

DARISC 08-28-2011 03:56 PM

Like yeah, ya know whum sayin? that sucks! Ya know whum sayin'?

Rick V 08-28-2011 04:01 PM

I heard dat!

Tervuren 08-28-2011 04:01 PM

I think they like, use it whenever their mouth is like, running faster than their mouth is, so they feel the need to like, fill in a word to make up for like, the fact their brain isn't keeping up with like, their mouth.

There are two solutions - help them get smarter and faster in processing what they want to say, and increase their ready vocabulary, or get them to slow down how fast they talk. In simpler terms, slow the mouth down to a speed the brain can stay ahead, or speed the brain up to keep pace with the mouth. The former is probably the better option, but the best option is both. Thinking before, or even if, you say something, can make someone seem a lot wiser.

LeeH 08-28-2011 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 968rz (Post 6223006)
1 year more of being locked in her room for every like used out of context.

If your a dad like me the lock in starts at age 12 and will last till 30, add to that every like and she'll be safe forever.

;)

I've tried to implement a program I call, "Dime-A-Like." If I truly charged $.10 for each "like" out of her mouth and I think I could quit working.

masraum 08-28-2011 04:05 PM

I think time is the only cure, and even then it's not guaranteed.

It seems to be worst with younger teens, and gets a bit better as they get older.

What really makes me sick is when I see folks actually continue the trend in typed media.

Zeke 08-28-2011 04:06 PM

Bring her over and sit her down in front of me, a 66 YO scraggly old man. I'll tell about the days in 1959 when like every other word was like. Oh, and I'll tell her how b!tchin' everything was at that time in jr high. She might run run screaming to her friends, "Don't ever say that old man's word again!"

Like cool man.

imcarthur 08-28-2011 04:08 PM

Our youngest, who is, like 27, seems to be in the, like, vanguard of use of this irritating word. Sort of a, like, extension of Valley Girl stupid. But America's bastardization of the English language is, like, nothing new.

Ian

DARISC 08-28-2011 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Tervuren (Post 6223078)
...There are two solutions...

Those are good. I just thought of another. For every offense, make the offender write the offensive sentence in proper English, eliminating all offensive 'like's.

Like, that oughta teach 'em. Ya know whum sayin'?

LeeH 08-28-2011 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tervuren (Post 6223078)
I think they like, use it whenever their mouth is like, running faster than their mouth is, so they feel the need to like, fill in a word to make up for like, the fact their brain isn't keeping up with like, their mouth.

Definitely part of the problem with her. Her mouth can't keep up with her brain. She reads 3-4 times faster than I can with way better retention (ex: Harry Potter books read in two days). It's funny when she tries to read aloud as she gets severely toungue tied.

My daughter's friend is over this afternoon, so I'll spend the evening trying to get her to speak English again.

Tobra 08-28-2011 04:30 PM

Groovy; they totally can't have that one either.

I have heard some discussion of the apropriate spelling. I know more than one guy that insists it is spelled(speeled?) *****en. The reasoning being that you were referring to something that was bad ass, not complaining.


The possibility that the involved parties are colluding with the intent to "mess with my head" should not be discounted, given how I sometimes am about spelling and grammar.

DARISC 08-28-2011 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by masraum (Post 6223088)
...What really makes me sick is when I see folks actually continue the trend in typed media.

This morning, cute little TV news-mouth, standing in a hurricane puddle, reported that power is still off, but "They are efforting to get it back on".

AAARGH!!! :mad:

ckissick 08-28-2011 04:49 PM

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".

LWJ 08-28-2011 05:43 PM

I had a Professor at UO who would put you on the spot in front of 300 classmates and demand a coherent verbal answer. If you said "um," "uh," "like," or some similar variant, he would mock you.

An excellent tool for behavior modification.

Larry

DARISC 08-28-2011 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by LWJ (Post 6223227)
...If you said "um,"

Ha! Judge Judy jumps on that, loudly, "Um's not a word!" :mad:

"So I borrowed him the money..." "No you didn't!" :mad:

"So me and him...". "He and I!" :mad:

Judge Judy be cool, like, ya know whum sayin'? :D

Super_Dave_D 08-28-2011 06:52 PM

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 08-28-2011 07:03 PM

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 08-28-2011 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Super_Dave_D (Post 6223361)
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 08-28-2011 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ckissick (Post 6223146)

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 08-28-2011 08:29 PM

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 08-28-2011 08:59 PM

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 08-28-2011 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by stealthn (Post 6223476)
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 08-28-2011 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by look 171 (Post 6223514)
I can't stand hater or bro. It drives me nuts

lol umad bro?

DARISC 08-28-2011 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by look 171 (Post 6223514)
I can't stand hater or bro. It drives me nuts

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

slodave 08-28-2011 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by ckissick (Post 6223146)
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 08-29-2011 12:01 AM

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 08-29-2011 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by livi (Post 6223630)
...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 08-29-2011 12:31 AM

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 08-29-2011 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by livi (Post 6223639)
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 08-29-2011 01:40 AM

Like, whatever.

look 171 08-29-2011 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by DanielDudley (Post 6223671)
Like, whatever.

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

livi 08-29-2011 03:48 AM

Thats fluff!

cmccuist 08-29-2011 04:27 AM

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 08-29-2011 04:33 AM

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 08-29-2011 04:36 AM

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


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