<p>Does anyone else hate it when people run around saying "like" in every other word? It drives me crazy, I can't stand it, it screams stupidity to me.</p>
<p>What brought this rant along today; I was supposed to be critiquing a new girl's paper in class, and IN the paper she wrote "like" and "whatever" (in the "MTV-girly" fashion, not in the correct sense) and I told her, that if she plans on turning this into our English teacher, who's pretty strict she should change it. She reponds with: </p>
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[quote] "This is, like.. um, you know, just how I speak, and like the teacher said to just write like ourselves, you know? I'm not all like, uh... smart and stuff, you know, to write all whatever-like, so this is how I wrote it."
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<p>Feel free to respond, or bash - everything's welcomed :p</p>
<p>Actually, it is fairly annoying. I don't tend to take someone seriously who speaks like that. I'm not saying they are dumb, or less intelligent because they speak in that way, but it does give the impression that they are, atleast until you spend enough time with the person to learn otherwise.
But I do know some pretty cool people who speak like that, so I'm neutrall I suppose.</p>
<p>Also, The movie wasn't called Clueless for nothing</p>
<p>I'm afraid I may be guilty of these extra words in oral communication. I'm not proud of it, but it seems they creep in to keep my thoughts running. It's terrible, I know :( . I do, however, frown upon using their written forms and have no tolerance for using them in formal writing.</p>
<p>If that was her verbatim response, I can sum up my thoughts in one word: roflcopter.</p>
<p>There is a girl who needs to read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, among a great deal of others about grammar and style. She would never have gotten past 7th grade; there, one had to do projects where if one said the words "like", "you know", "um...", "yeah", and so on, one would recieve a 3% deduction in the grade for each occurrence. There were people who ended up with a score of -1 because they committed 34 verbal infractions in 5 minutes. That sentence alone would have given her -36 points.
Sadly enough, people tend to write in the same manner that they speak; as a result, when people write badly, one can assume much of the time their speech is not much better. There are a few exceptions to the rule, as always-there is no such thing as a uniform rule to the human race except that everyone will die.</p>
<p>The "umm," "yeah," and "like" words that people use don't bother me if they're informally speaking or typing on instant messenger, unless they use them to an extreme degree. However, there is no excuse for using those words when one is delivering a speech, presenting a project, typing a letter, etc.</p>
<p>not exactly an outcast, but I can assure you that as a Hoosier raised by "Michander" parents, people become quite offended by those, especially my age, who do not at least toss in a few "likes" and "ums", and they tend to view proper speech patterns as pretentious...this goes for pronunciation, too</p>
<p>I had a teacher my sophomore year who became so frustrated with students using any and all forms of the verb "get" in papers that she finished the year deducting 5% each time she spotted the word :D</p>
<p>I'd rather be viewed as pretentious, thank you. ;)</p>
<p>EDIT: Speaking of people who write like Prepsatd was saying. I remember a few years ago, back in junior high when a girl accused me of threatening to stab her with a butter knife (it is a long story, but apparently, she's unfamiliar with sarcasm) we were told to write accounts of what happened and to turn them into our counselor. Needlessly to say, her account was also filled with "like"s and "um"s, the counselor who was reading what she wrote outloud couldn't stop laughing.</p>
<p>hey me, too!! It's so much fun to get into arguments wi/ people over the correct way to say a word as opposed to the backwoods, redneck version :D</p>
<p>Besides, when I leave Indiana, an advanced degree in Hoosier-speak won't help me much</p>
<p>that's nothing....my english teacher last year said ahhh and ummm constantly!! A couple of the guys in the class counted over 100 in ten minutes, and around 30 in one minute on two occasions :p</p>
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that's nothing....my english teacher last year said ahhh and ummm constantly!! A couple of the guys in the class counted over 100 in ten minutes, and around 30 in one minute on two occasions
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<p>I admit, I say "um" when I'm nervous, but to say it that much as she did, would have driven me crazy. Every question she asked me to answer I would have responded with </p>
<p>"Ummmm........... the capital of ahhhhhhh...... like, what's that state called? Ummmm..... ahhhhh..... oh yeah, Colorado, is... ahhhhh."</p>