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Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
Nonsense. It's just laziness.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I think it has a lot more to do with group identity than laziness.The Mad Hatter wrote:Nonsense. It's just laziness.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I'm sorry, but the word "awesome" is, like, totally awesome. I'd go so far as to say it is wicked awesome. And if people don't like things that are totally wicked awesome, they can fuck off. Holla!
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
Can't fucking stand the word.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
thats just like, your opinion man..Feck wrote:Can't fucking stand the word.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I don't get laziness. How is it lazier to annunciate the word "like" than it is to just go "um" or "err"?The Mad Hatter wrote:Nonsense. It's just laziness.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
It's fashion, trend, affectation, herd-mentality, monkey-see-monkey-do - sure - but laziness?
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
no awesome, like is like irrelevant it's um or er or so
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I think in the case of the overuse of "like" it's turned into a speech disfluency, and is used as filler like "um" or "er.'Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I don't get laziness. How is it lazier to annunciate the word "like" than it is to just go "um" or "err"?The Mad Hatter wrote:Nonsense. It's just laziness.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
It's fashion, trend, affectation, herd-mentality, monkey-see-monkey-do - sure - but laziness?
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I picked up the habit of "He was all like..." before I knew that it was considered gendered. People were all like: "Your totally talking like a girl!"
Nobody actually said "Your totally talking like a girl!", but it they expressed something very much along those lines.
Nobody actually said "Your totally talking like a girl!", but it they expressed something very much along those lines.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
Isn't it like, "You're like, totally talking like a girl." I think you like, missed a "like", innit.Robert_S wrote:I picked up the habit of "He was all like..." before I knew that it was considered gendered. People were all like: "Your totally talking like a girl!"
Nobody actually said "Your totally talking like a girl!", but it they expressed something very much along those lines.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
You can, like, put this somewhere.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Isn't it like, "You're like, totally talking like a girl." I think you like, missed a "like", innit.Robert_S wrote:I picked up the habit of "He was all like..." before I knew that it was considered gendered. People were all like: "Your totally talking like a girl!"
Nobody actually said "Your totally talking like a girl!", but it they expressed something very much along those lines.
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
I like it that you are a grumpy old man so early!The Mad Hatter wrote:Nonsense. It's just laziness.
And I'm not so far removed from 'that group' considering it's my age group who has adopted tha atrocious Americanism.
It took me quite some time to reach that point...
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Re: Teen slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?
You are all like totally typing like a girl!Robert_S wrote:I picked up the habit of "He was all like..." before I knew that it was considered gendered. People were all like: "Your totally talking like a girl!"
Nobody actually said "Your totally talking like a girl!", but it they expressed something very much along those lines.
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