We Should, Like, Stop Saying Like.

[matgb]

Via Boing Boing:
(from Neatorama, another At Flickr)

Suffice to say, I agree. I don't mind occasional use, especially as a pause for, like, thought. But some people scatter the word (and/or "you know") throughout sentences, with no real need or pause.

The poster campaign is a spoof BTW, but it's still cool.

Also:


An email notification from a comment on an f-locked post. Not relevent, so I've removed all identifiers, but look at the targetted ads there. There's no direct mention of Douglas, nor of Hitchhikers, merely character names. There are some smart cookies out there paying for their keywords. Wonder which ones triggered it; Zaphod is the most obvious...

Phone's playing up a bit, annoyingly, seems to not want to tell me about text messages. Ah well, it still rings, and I've switched it off and recharged it, that usually helps.

Comments

[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

Did you ever have any lectures with Larbi for your degree?
Admittedly I suppose he's not a native english speaker, but you know, using "you know" every five seconds is a little excessive.

But yeah, anyway, young people are speaking in ways that are really annoying. I suppose you have the head start on getting used to it as you get older...

[matgb]

Nope, never had Larbi, his courses didn't appeal to what I wanted. Met him a few times though, nice bloke from what I recall.

You get used to it, but you don't ever get to like it. Interspersing unneccessary words just, well, pointless.

Non native speakers get a free "you speak more languages than me" pass, but then you have the advantage of being able to point out that it's bad practice, normally NNSs tend to prefer to be told stuff, all my colleauges do.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

There's another annoying language thing within english, which is to increase pitch at the end of a sentence so it sounds like a quesiton. On every sentence.I tend to pick up that affectation around some friends back home.
Annoys my mother no end