“like” is the new “um”

[Vinsanitizer]

Also, "look" and "lookit", are the new "let me be clear".

 

[Vinsanitizer]

I mean um like apparently people literally always say brutal, what even is that, nahmsayin?

Totally.

 

[PelliX]

Don't forget 'actually'. Instead of putting all other 4-6 words of a sentence together in their head, they plaster the 'like' and so on in there, together with an 'actually' every other word. Whereas I can vaguely understand 'like', as it's starting a comparison, I find 'actually' odd. When such people *don't* use that in a sentence, do they still mean it?

It's like I'm actually unsure, you know.

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Don't forget 'actually'. Instead of putting all other 4-6 words of a sentence together in their head, they plaster the 'like' and so on in there, together with an 'actually' every other word. Whereas I can vaguely understand 'like', as it's starting a comparison, I find 'actually' odd. When such people *don't* use that in a sentence, do they still mean it?

It's like I'm actually unsure, you know.

I use actually and literally all the time. It's literally like I have nothing better to actually do.

 

[Leonard Neemoil]

Look, actually like um totally apparently literally!






















Naaaaahmsayin!!!

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Look, actually like um totally apparently literally!






















Naaaaahmsayin!!!

Why yes! Yes, apparently you are!

 

[Leonard Neemoil]

Why yes! Yes, apparently you are!

Ir-regardless!

 

[paul-e-mann]

Speak slower so you don't need any filler!

 

[Vinsanitizer]

Ir-regardless!

That's right! I grew up on that one, it's not even a real word.

 

[AlvisX]

I don't think Im actually older than you guys ,but maybe a little less square

Hepcats & beatniks have been using the term ,"Like" for 3/4 of a century , man
Like Maynard G Krebbs ,man....... which by that time was probably already passe'

 

[Dogs of Doom]

I don't think Im actually older than you guys ,but maybe a little less square

Hepcats & beatniks have been using the term ,"Like" for 3/4 of a century , man
Like Maynard G Krebbs ,man....... which by that time was probably already passe'

yeah, but, like, it's all in the way you use it, man...

It's like, 2 people tell the same joke, one person just isn't funny, while the other has everybody laughing in hysterics. Or, even to a maybe more relatable example, 2 people play the same cover song. 1 person gets a standing ovation, while the other either gets met w/ uncomfortable silence, or jeers of "go home & practice"! w/ fists waving in the air...

some people use like, in a most annoying, or idiotic fashion. I think that was why Zappa made a parody on it back in the day, but, it wasn't just "like", it was a whole dialect that was forming in the "Valley" San Fernando - Simi? that was running amok, at the time.

Funny though, that it seems to be popular these days, especially w/ college girls abroad, in the US universities, & they seem to liken it w/ intellectualism...

the thing I could never understand about beatnikism, is the snapping of fingers as applause...

like, groovy man! ...

 

[tubes]

I don't think Im actually older than you guys ,but maybe a little less square

Hepcats & beatniks have been using the term ,"Like" for 3/4 of a century , man
Like Maynard G Krebbs ,man....... which by that time was probably already passe'

I don't know how old I am either, but...
I belong to the Beat generation. (Place Youtube vid here)
Also
I belong to the Blank generation. (Place Youtube vid here (Richard Hell))

Also:
While people worry about the use of fillers and nonsense words such as 'like' the language goes to perdition because of other problems.

For example, a distinction between the correct use of 'which' and 'that' is no longer observed.
It's LIKE nobody understands syntax these days.
It's LIKE we live in a world where nobody knows the difference between a defining relative clause and the other sort of relative clause.
What?
It is LIKE we live in a world where nobody knows why a dangling or disconnected participle amounts to a grammatical and syntactical sin.

I could go on and on.

It's LIKE we live in a world full of Zoomers who, never once in their lives, opened a book about grammar or syntax - and studied it for days, or weeks.

 

[G the wildman]

Join Toastmasters.

 

[circles]

Man, like man like, um... you know, um, like, man, um, you know? You know? Man.