I was working in a local college dorm a few days ago, and heard a girl use it no less than 10 times in one minute during a cell phone conversation. Pretty much the same as when I was in college a decade ago.
Just kidding, but it drives me nuts how many STers don’t know how to spell “loser.” They all must have been taught spelling using the “sloppy copy” method. I bet they can’t multiply without a calculator either.
Pretty soon India and China will be outsourcing their low skill/low wage jobs to the USA.
You can tell I’m not fond of how our children are being taught.
even our older friends with 10-14yr old kids say it too.
Well, there’s the culprit right there. People tend to adopt the linguistic habits of those around them. I’m guessing your wife spends a good deal of time around younger girls, or around people who do.
Dude, like, I totally think that you’re, like, getting like, way too serious about this. Like, we’re just trying to like, you know… have, like, a conversation? And now like, you’re like getting all like, annoyed and like, pissy about it. Like, chill out already.
My parents’ method for dealing with it when my sister and I were teenagers was to repeat the word immediately after we said it, interupting whatever we were saying. They did it with “um” as well. It was seriously annoying but it made us try to stop (worked better for my sister than it did for me). Would your wife kill you if you did that to her? She’d of course do it back.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I get after my girls all the time about it, but I have to admit I find myself saying it sometimes too.
My other pet peeve is when people make a statement, but raise their voice at the end of the sentence so it sounds like a question. I think young girls do it most often and it makes them sound stupid, but many adults do it too (especially women). We absolutely hound our girls about that one.
My daughter, who is now 21, used to say it all the time when she was younger. Obviously, I rode her pretty hard, and she would get mad at me. Yesterday she sent me a text, from class, thanking me for being a hard ass because in her words, “I’d hate to sound as stupid as these girls giving a presentation right now.”
**My daughter, who is now 21, used to say it all the time when she was younger. Obviously, I rode her pretty hard, and she would get mad at me. Yesterday she sent me a text, from class, thanking me for being a hard ass because in her words, “I’d hate to sound as stupid as these girls giving a presentation right now.” **
That’s fantastic. For the past 15+ years I have hired inner city (D.C.) kids as summer interns. Very smart kids but 90% of them have used “axe” instead of “ask.” I have corrected them each time and I am sure at the time they thought I was a pain in ass. I have heard from many over the years, most have graduated college and some law school and they remember what a pain I was and are appreciative.
My next conquest is to rid the world of “anyways.” I will leave “like” to the rest of you.
