"Like" syndrome

[Bones]

You have no idea how much the overuse of the word "like" (to fill in empty space) irritates me; it rubs my skin raw with a cheese grater, sprinkles salt on the open laceration and then, lastly, squeezes a lemon on top of it. I soooo, like, want to strangle, like, anyone who, like, says like, like, every five seconds, like, after every other word. Like, immediately.

For the love of all that is unholy, stick a dick in your mouth; chew on some gum; anything besides opening your sewer flaps and spewing out repetitive turd after turd.

When did this infuriating fad begin? How did this happen!?

 

[strollingbones]

like its a simily or something

 

[editec]

It's a kind of kneejerk mitigation of a statement and an affectation of one's coolness, too

"I was terrified" is a stronger statement of fact than: I was like...terrified.

People who use this convention are generally suffering from HIPititous.

 

[chanel]

like

1. Every third word used in the LA and Orange County in Southern California

Like what time is it? Like I have no clue.

2. In the UK we call this a comma. Used mostly to introduce a qoute, it is also used randomly by irritating teenagers and people who dropped out of school or have never read a book above the literary standard of Guns 'n' Ammo. It can be exchanged with a number of other phrases, including I was all.

Like, oh my God, that is, like, so wrong.

3. Around the DC area, it's used to end a sentence or comment.

say your comment or question and then add "like" in the end of it.

Why he got on so many colors like...?

 

[editec]

Another affectation is the replacement of the GO to mean SAID.

She shes goes, "bla bla bla" and I go, like " Oh yeah?!"

 

[zzzz]

whatever! like ... You know!

 

[Granny]

Ah - I'm not alone in, like, my irritation over the use of, like, "like."

I knew this was going to be a good year:

Jan 1 - big smile, pouring rain;
Jan 2 - "like" irritates others - yes, I think it's going to be a good year.

 

[Dis]

"Like" is far less irritating than constantly hearing "these ones" and "those ones".

 

[JBeukema]

How do you like these ones, Dis?

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1


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[Dis]

How do you like these ones, Dis?

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1


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[Midnight Marauder]

That's like, totally tubular. Tripendicular!

Gnomesayin'?

 

[Granny]

That's like, totally tubular. Tripendicular!

Gnomesayin'?

My youngest daughter was into Valspeak - just HAD to go see the movie "Valley Girls." When I picked her up after the movie, she dove into the back seat floorboard of the car and yelled, "GO! GO! I can't let any of my friends see me here!" That was the end of Valspeak in my house!

 

[Zoom-boing]

Like? That's so yesterday. Legitimately is the new 'it' word. My oldest uses it whay more than I'd prefer. She's like, legitimately getting on my nerves.

 

[editec]

Like?

Sup wid dat?

 

[Douger]

40 years ago it was " Ya Know?" syndrome. Ya know ?

 

[American Horse]

You have no idea how much the overuse of the word "like" (to fill in empty space) irritates me; it rubs my skin raw with a cheese grater, sprinkles salt on the open laceration and then, lastly, squeezes a lemon on top of it. I soooo, like, want to strangle, like, anyone who, like, says like, like, every five seconds, like, after every other word. Like, immediately.

For the love of all that is unholy, stick a dick in your mouth; chew on some gum; anything besides opening your sewer flaps and spewing out repetitive turd after turd.

When did this infuriating fad begin? How did this happen!?

There's a clue in Editec's answer:

It's a kind of kneejerk mitigation of a statement and an affectation of one's coolness, too

"I was terrified" is a stronger statement of fact than: I was like...terrified.

<SNIP>

It originally came about as a briefer form of "as if" as in "It was as if I was terrified." Also like is very flexible in its forms which include use as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection, and as a quotative.

I remember fifty years back being taught in my high school english class that it was bad form, (much as "If I would have done this or that" instead of "If I had done this or that") but apparently it caught on as a cliché.

 

[Article 15]

Dude? Like, I got no idea what you are talking about, dude. Know what I'm sayin'?

 

[syrenn]

As if! Did you not like never go to school? Never use "like" for "as"

 

[PixieStix]

It's like umm better than "whateverrr"

 

[syrenn]

It's like umm better than "whateverrr"