"like"

MattD1349

It can't be just me but since when did people turn into vacant headed californians? I'm am sick of listening to people pepper conversations with the word 'like' thrown in randomly throughout. Fux sake even Bertie Aherne wasn't that bad & he was cringe worthy. 😠 Where did this come from? When did it start? Is it as a result of the celtic tiger? Over exposure to 'Americana?' Or just general dumbing down?

I don't 'like' it I tells ya...

9bred4

Don't go to Cork for yourself...

jimgoose

9bred4 wrote: »

Don't go to Cork for yourself...

...or Chountae Limerigg junowhattamane, like! :pac:

Conall Cernach

I don't know if it is the same thing or even related but I just had a fella come into me in work here and tell me that he was only back after 5 months in Australia and he was doing that thing where every sentence was turned into a question e.g. "I was in Australia for five months?" I was on the verge of telling him to talk properly and not like he was on Home and Away.

nullzero

Dundrum shopping center (I refuse to call it town centre) might be the worst place for it; "lioke where the fock is Siadbh and sh1t? I'm lioke totally sick of waiting around for her and sh1t lioke totally and sh1t lioke".

yeppydeppy

Literally and actually too.

Omackeral

OMG this thread is so random.

Delirium

MattD1349 wrote: »

It can't be just me but since when did people turn into vacant headed californians? I'm am sick of listening to people pepper conversations with the word 'like' thrown in randomly throughout. Fux sake even Bertie Aherne wasn't that bad & he was cringe worthy. 😠Where did this come from? When did it start? Is it as a result of the celtic tiger? Over exposure to 'Americana?' Or just general dumbing down?

I don't 'like' it I tells ya...

OMG, that is so dumb. Like, people can't be smart just because they don't, like, talk like you do. That's, like, being such a snob. Some people would, like, saying that, like, swearing is the sign of low intelligence.

how about you, like, just deal with it and move on!

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Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like! :P:P:pac:

The_Captain

but its like totes amazeballs?

Reoil

Pet hate of mine. I don't mind the odd one thrown in at the end of a sentence like.
Also hate an upward inflection when the thing being said is not a question.

kylith

MattD1349 wrote: »

It can't be just me but since when did people turn into vacant headed californians? I'm am sick of listening to people pepper conversations with the word 'like' thrown in randomly throughout. Fux sake even Bertie Aherne wasn't that bad & he was cringe worthy. 😠Where did this come from? When did it start? Is it as a result of the celtic tiger? Over exposure to 'Americana?' Or just general dumbing down?

I don't 'like' it I tells ya...

You think it's, like, bad now? You should have, like, been around in the mid-90s, like. That's, like, how long it's been going on, like.

Badly Drunk Boy

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I don't know if it is the same thing or even related but I just had a fella come into me in work here and tell me that he was only back after 5 months in Australia and he was doing that thing where every sentence was turned into a question e.g. "I was in Australia for five months?" I was on the verge of telling him to talk properly and not like he was on Home and Away.

The girl I work with is lovely but uses that upward inflection-thing, especially if she's trying to explain something? "You have to move this figure here? And click on that button? And slice into the carotid artery until everything goes red?"

And she has never been to Australia.

HowAreWe

goway wit yourself like

gramar

Conall Cernach wrote: »

I don't know if it is the same thing or even related but I just had a fella come into me in work here and tell me that he was only back after 5 months in Australia and he was doing that thing where every sentence was turned into a question e.g. "I was in Australia for five months?" I was on the verge of telling him to talk properly and not like he was on Home and Away.

It is infinitely more annoying than people saying 'like'.
I hope you inflicted great pain upon this person.

thegreatgonzo

gramar wrote: »

It is infinitely more annoying than people saying 'like'.
I hope you inflicted great pain upon this person.

That's bad but I also hate the vocal fry thing that Kim kardashian and those type of people use. At least I think that's what it's called. It's that slow drawl totally devoid of emotion.

spunkymunky

When did 'Like' start to replace other words?
You dont hear..."And I said..." Now its 'And i was like..paaause...something they said' or 'And I thought'...has become 'And I was like...paaaaause...something they thought'

Its not Cromulent, like

readyletsgo

MattD1349 wrote: »

It can't be just me but since when did people turn into vacant headed californians? I'm am sick of listening to people pepper conversations with the word 'like' thrown in randomly throughout. Fux sake even Bertie Aherne wasn't that bad & he was cringe worthy. 😠 Where did this come from? When did it start? Is it as a result of the celtic tiger? Over exposure to 'Americana?' Or just general dumbing down?

I don't 'like' it I tells ya...

About 10 or more years ago in Dublin and about 1000 years ago outside Dublin like!

I even say it without even realizing it at all. Been around a long long time. Where have YOU been OP?

cournioni

yeppydeppy wrote: »

Literally and actually too.

To quote Frasier Crane, "I think you mean figuratively". :pac:

Cee-Jay-Cee

It doesn't bother me and is miles better than Sonia O'Sullian's habit of adding 'ya know' to the end of every single sentence and in the middle of many of them too.

Polo_Mint

"Do ya know what I mean Like"

Ayls

In USA (late 70s) someone asks me the time, I say " It's half 2 " They say "That's like 1 o'clock ? "

starlit

Unfortunately I cannot help it that I add it into my conversation I do try not to add in too much If I can...but I ain't from Cork!

4zn76tysfajdxp

Ayls wrote: »

In USA (late 70s) someone asks me the time, I say " It's half 2 " They say "That's like 1 o'clock ? "

In the Nordic countries, "half two" is taken to mean 13:30. So you have to be pretty careful with that.

Greenmachine

Hasn't this been going now for 15-20 years.

JacquesSon

Dylan Green Infant wrote: »

In the Nordic countries, "half two" is taken to mean 13:00. So you have to be pretty careful with that.

In the north of England Dylan Green Infant was Yestada.

batistuta9

Dylan Green Infant wrote: »

In the Nordic countries, "half two" is taken to mean 13:00. So you have to be pretty careful with that.

Is it not 1:30 it means or is that somewhere else

4zn76tysfajdxp

batistuta9 wrote: »

Is it not 1:30 it means or is that somewhere else

It is, yeah. What a brainfart. Thanks for pointing it out.

batistuta9

Dylan Green Infant wrote: »

It is, yeah. What a brainfart. Thanks for pointing it out.

Don't worry like

JacquesSon

Explain it if you're going to frizzle about it.

Is it the germanic thing?

'Halb acht' isn't the same as 'acht Uhr dreizig'?

Ayls

Dylan Green Infant wrote: »

In the Nordic countries, "half two" is taken to mean 13:30. So you have to be pretty careful with that.

Have to be pretty careful with what ?

dxhound2005

Ayls wrote: »

Have to be pretty careful with what ?

You half two be pretty careful about the time.

Hammer89

I should point out that there are two different types of people in Ireland who excessively use the word 'like'.

For example: the ones that use it at the start, or in the middle of a sentence, are the ones you need to look out for. "Like, I'm just so f*cking hungover." However, people like myself, who use it at the very end of a sentence, are okay I think: "It just seems natural to me like."

4zn76tysfajdxp

Ayls wrote: »

Have to be pretty careful with what ?

You might offhandedly say "I'll meet you at half two" meaning 14:30 where whoever you're talking about infers 13:30. Then the meeting is cocked up.

Ayls

Dylan Green Infant wrote: »

You might offhandedly say "I'll meet you at half two" meaning 14:30 where whoever you're talking about infers 13:30. Then the meeting is cocked up.

Ah, I see.

Aglomerado

There's a "wan" where I work who has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp and who is always complaining:

"It's stupid like, like, you know when you've to log into this account, and then, like, you've to log into the other account, like, and like, I'm always forgetting my passwords, like and I've, like, to ring IT, like"

Earplugs at the ready

Medusa22

I was living in Dublin for the last few years and I stopped adding ''like'' to the ends of my sentences, I moved back home to Cork about 6 months ago and it is creeping back in, something fierce, like I don't have a strong accent at least but my partner is greatly amused that my voice has started to go up and down like a hysterical turkey when I'm talking, gobble gobble gobble.

I use ''literally'' a lot as well, but only when something is literal, not when it is figurative, and I use the word ''random'' too.

I think that my saving grace is that I don't use words like ''bants'' or ''amazeballs'' or ''totes'', surely that counts for something, like?

melted_face

living in america , theres been too many times when ive said a sentence and ended it with 'like' only for whomever im talking to to ask expectedly, 'like what ?'. it took me a while but i finally came up with the meaning which, in my opinion, is basically just adding emphasis to the preceding sentence.