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Please, ya know, like stop!

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Very annoying when, ya know, folk keep saying, like, ya know, unnecessary words like, it's especially annoying in a, ya know, tv or radio interview like.
Please stop!
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  • qwert_yuiop
    qwert_yuiop Posts: 3,617 Forumite
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    What about "so"? It seems to be the hip (and pointless) new way to start every sentence.
    “What means that trump?” Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
  • Cotta
    Cotta Posts: 3,667 Forumite
    Or the use of the word "cool" in generally any context.
  • guiriman
    guiriman Posts: 537 Forumite
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    It's a bit much.....so it is
  • badmemory
    badmemory Posts: 9,511 Forumite
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    And my favourite pet hate - ending a statement as if it was a question.
  • Zola.
    Zola. Posts: 2,204 Forumite
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    Grinds my gears too.


    "LIKE".... an incredibly annoying Americanism that has infected the young un's now. Some of them cant string a sentence together without saying "like" several times.

    "I was like, so mad at him, like, he just like, doesnt know when to like....."
  • BigAl94
    BigAl94 Posts: 1,919 Forumite
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    Your wee table's ready - here's your wee bill - what's your wee number - cracks me up.
  • Ticked
    Ticked Posts: 518 Forumite
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    On reflection, possibly worse than the 'like', 'ya know' and 'cool' is pluralising (how's that for a word) you into youse, that really grates on the senses. This topic is making me wonder what speech abonomitations I'm guilty of.........��
  • saverbuyer
    saverbuyer Posts: 2,556 Forumite
    It's know as upspeak or high rising terminal. (HRT).
    There was a great programme a few months ago or Radio 4 devoted to it.
  • RikM
    RikM Posts: 811 Forumite
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    I came across a joke programming language definition once, for a "Californian" language.
    Each statement was prefixed with the keyword "like" and terminated with the words "you know".
    Like x = 10 you know
  • Ticked
    Ticked Posts: 518 Forumite
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    badmemory wrote: »
    And my favourite pet hate - ending a statement as if it was a question.
    Comes from watching Australian soaps! :rotfl:
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