I Hate Like ( A lighthearted grump )

[AhFarangJa]

Is it just me, or does anyone else get fed up with the propensity for people nowadays ( mainly younger people ), to enter the word 'Like' into every sentence, be it either written, or spoken. 

here is a typical example of what I hear or read nowadays.........

Yeh, my friends and me, like, we decided like to go the mall, and like check out the movies. Well, we picked this film like, but like after we all said we did not like it, so we went for a milk shake, and like, my friends all wanted diet ones, but like I did not care.

OK, mild rant off my chest, but am I alone in this, or have other people noticed how it is increasingly becoming accepted as the norm in the English language......like........

[chickenslegs]

I was going to give your post a "Like", but I know how you would hate that - so I didn't.

[colinneil]

Well i liked it.

[luk AJ]

You can change "like" by "hate" and there you go....


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[Hedghog]

UK southerners used to use,"know what I mean"in a similar fashion.

The usage wanes in time.

[nikmar]

I d this myself. sort of a habit...like. the problem is , my kid has started doing it. i wish i didnt but i cant stop....know what i mean like.

Theres a lad I work with who was schooled in the uK. sounds very posh but he does the same. 

Its a bit like some people say errrr or uh huh in mid sentence. 

[roo860]

Thought it started as an American thing? Funnily enough I was only thinking the same thing the other day sitting near two American kids.

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[AhFarangJa]

22 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Well i liked it.

Obviously like minded people Colin........

[Godolphin]

1 hour ago, roo860 said:

Thought it started as an American thing? Funnily enough I was only thinking the same thing the other day sitting near two American kids.

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It's spread around the world like a virus!

 

Another term that just about makes me vomit is being call "Dude," by Australians. Dude!?

 

Am I just getting old and grouchy? Am I nostalgic for the smart local slang of my youth?

 

Like, you bet I am dudes!

[phuketjock]

2 hours ago, nikmar said:

I d this myself. sort of a habit...like. the problem is , my kid has started doing it. i wish i didnt but i cant stop....know what i mean like.

Theres a lad I work with who was schooled in the uK. sounds very posh but he does the same. 

Its a bit like some people say errrr or uh huh in mid sentence. 

Always thought it was a bit of a Scouse thing like?

[newatthis]

50 minutes ago, Godolphin said:

It's spread around the world like a virus!

 

Another term that just about makes me vomit is being call "Dude," by Australians. Dude!?

 

Am I just getting old and grouchy? Am I nostalgic for the smart local slang of my youth?

 

Like, you bet I am dudes!

Cobber,, I hate to tell you this but "dude" is not an Australian term. Avagudweekend, matey

[alex8912]

I would hate to speak the exact same English as my father or grand father did. Slang is here to stay and it becomes vernacular English so instead of moaning dudes you better start twerking. 

[elgordo38]

555 LOL and all that s**t. Its getting so hard to read any of the diatribe or other "text" language. Is there a dictionary out for all this alternate truth ooops sorry language. 

[elgordo38]

3 hours ago, colinneil said:

Well i liked it.

Me to. Its just a phase we are passing through till we old schoolers are all phased out. Some call it "progress" I call it goodbye to fun and good times hello AI and no job. Glad I was born early rather than late. 

[Godolphin]

17 minutes ago, newatthis said:

Cobber,, I hate to tell you this but "dude" is not an Australian term. Avagudweekend, matey

Me old china plate,

 

That's what I'm saying. It is not Australian but American, just like a lot of the slang that young Aussies are using these days.

 

I used the word "bludger" the other day and I was looked at as if I was speaking Martian or something.

 

American slang is great for Americans but, unfortunately, given its domination of the media, it looks like our unique slang is getting as obsolete as the Tassie Tiger. And that's dinkum mate!

[HooHaa]

i think, like, the issue is you guys are just a bunch of like crusty old codgers who cant like recall what its like to be young.

we all had vernacular we used as teens and we grew out of it. 

get over yourseld how often do you actually talk to somebody young anyways.

[bazza73]

Verbal laziness is not confined to "like". Phrases such as "the thing is", "let's be honest"( really?) " I mean" etc. are endemic.

[bazza73]

1 hour ago, Godolphin said:

Me old china plate,

 

That's what I'm saying. It is not Australian but American, just like a lot of the slang that young Aussies are using these days.

 

I used the word "bludger" the other day and I was looked at as if I was speaking Martian or something.

 

American slang is great for Americans but, unfortunately, given its domination of the media, it looks like our unique slang is getting as obsolete as the Tassie Tiger. And that's dinkum mate!

May the expression " don't come the raw prawn with me" never die. I love the confused looks I get when I use it on a non-Aussie - or even some who claim they are Australian.

Incidentally, I think "china plate" is actually Cockney rhyming slang. "Bludger" and "dinkum" are  authentic Oz.

[smotherb]

1 hour ago, Godolphin said:

Me old china plate,

 

That's what I'm saying. It is not Australian but American, just like a lot of the slang that young Aussies are using these days.

 

I used the word "bludger" the other day and I was looked at as if I was speaking Martian or something.

 

American slang is great for Americans but, unfortunately, given its domination of the media, it looks like our unique slang is getting as obsolete as the Tassie Tiger. And that's dinkum mate!

The words "dude" and "like" were used in American slang when I was a teenager in the late 50s early 60s
 

[nikmar]

2 hours ago, phuketjock said:

Always thought it was a bit of a Scouse thing like?

 

Funny you should say that. I picked up the "you know what I mean like" from working in Kirkby.

[elgordo38]

1 hour ago, HooHaa said:

get over yourseld how often do you actually talk to somebody young anyways.

Well if  your asking me its everyday. Others well let them answer for themselves. 

[Godolphin]

54 minutes ago, bazza73 said:

May the expression " don't come the raw prawn with me" never die. I love the confused looks I get when I use it on a non-Aussie - or even some who claim they are Australian.

Incidentally, I think "china plate" is actually Cockney rhyming slang. "Bludger" and "dinkum" are  authentic Oz.

Bazza,

 

What I love about Aussie "jack lang" (slang) is that it has borrowed from Cockney, Irish, Scottish, you name it, but remained distinctly our own.

 

Rubbidy dub (pub), septic tank (Yank), Charlie Wheeler (sheila), steak and kidney (Sydney) are rhyming but not Cockney.

 

But, this side of the black stump, only dinky dy, true blue 'Strayns know how to speak Strine and that's what makes us unique.

 

I admire what the Irish, Scots, Welsh and French have done in trying to preserve their languages because our language teaches us, imho, to understand and appreciate who we came from.

Edited March 17, 2017 by Godolphin

[Formaleins]

Even worse, just listen to any Thai TV or radio or even everyday speech and you will soon find "Krap / Kah" grating on your nerves like sandpaper to the tip of your old man!

[whaleboneman]

I prefer the misuse of the word "like" to the overuse of the word f@#$.

[ebonykap]

For some reason, one new saying that really makes me grit my teeth is "My bad" Shocking grammar, why not say "My mistake" or "My error"? I know I'm being pedantic, but I don't like to see the British English language crucified by a nationality that even struggles to pronounce "aluminium" 

[roo860]

i think, like, the issue is you guys are just a bunch of like crusty old codgers who cant like recall what its like to be young.

we all had vernacular we used as teens and we grew out of it. 

get over yourseld how often do you actually talk to somebody young anyways.

Everyday

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[roo860]

Verbal laziness is not confined to "like". Phrases such as "the thing is", "let's be honest"( really?) " I mean" etc. are endemic.

Don't forget "basically ".

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[Suradit69]

5 hours ago, Godolphin said:

 

Another term that just about makes me vomit is being call "Dude," by Australians. Dude!?

Judging solely by Australian TV that I've watched, some Australians are unable to complete a sentence without inserting "mate" in it.

    

[Godolphin]

6 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:

Judging solely by Australian TV that I've watched, some Australians are unable to complete a sentence without inserting "mate" in it.

    

Why would you say that mate?

[sipi]

Doesn't bother me.

If they are talking to each other it is none of my business.

If they are talking to me I have heard much worse.