How about " LIKE" - Page 2

SportyShorty07 · ‎04-15-2014

@Momofdogs wrote:
i go crazy hearing( usually the younger crowd) using the word like in their conversation. Like, why do they like do that ?

@Momofdogs I'm right there with you! I'm 36 and I hear it so much in a lot of people in my generation- it can be annoying to listen to. I hear it a lot when someone is telling a story and he or she says "I was like, and he's like and she's like and then I'm like". I don't say the word "like" unless its necessary and used properly within a sentence.

The valley girl talk is being taken up by men too- I've been on first dates with guys who say "like" a lot and it is a turn off. I need a man who can speak succinctly and tell great stories or jokes without using the word "like" a lot.

Parischic · ‎12-06-2022

I was a young teen in the 80s and grew up and still live in California. I am guilty of using like, awesome, grody, and totally.
I try not to say totally and I stopped saying DUDE.

Big Joanie · ‎01-02-2015

Seems as though has been going on for a while now ....

Natureluvr · ‎06-14-2018

Guilty as charged! I don’t like it either! I try hard but it’s been a very difficult habit to break.😫

MoJoV · ‎10-01-2010

I so agree with you. I was listening to a radio show and the person being interviewed must've said "like" every other word. I didn't have the patience for one more" like".....click.

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Bookplate · ‎08-19-2011

@Imaoldhippie wrote:
That use of like has been around since the 1980's. I dont hear it as much anymore.

It was in colloquial use well before the 1980's. It was part of beatnik slang in the 1950's, like wow daddy-o.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

So many people (myself included) have a word they overuse in their conversations; like, you know, um, really, are the ones I hear most. I have to focus on rambling, run on sentences I connect with you know and so. My husband's overused word is "there". Everything is there or over there, down there, in there, out there, up there, and in one short story he may say the word 8x! For me it's worse than fingernails on a chalkboard!

A local hospital did several TV commercials with their surgeons talking about certain procedures. The commercials didn't last long, as the feedback from viewers was about the doctors overuse of the words um, so, and like. The focal point of all three commercials was lost in the bad speech habits of those medical professionals. I wasn't the least bit impressed with the commercials, but didn't submit feedback.

Spacrazy · ‎12-14-2018

@Momofdogs wrote:
i go crazy hearing( usually the younger crowd) using the word like in their conversation. Like, why do they like do that ?

You are not alone...

LyndaGee · ‎03-11-2010

@Bookplate wrote:

@Imaoldhippie wrote:
That use of like has been around since the 1980's. I dont hear it as much anymore.
It was in colloquial use well before the 1980's. It was part of beatnik slang in the 1950's, like wow daddy-o.

Yes! I like watching the "Dobie Gillis" reruns and his beatnik friend Maynard G Krebs' famous greeting was:"Like hi, good buddy"!