so i was like...and she was like....oh and he was like ...and of course they were lik

magick

taking the bus down from Dublin to Waterford last week. When i noticed how some students (more so girls, than guys using this phraze, maybe im mistaken but only using the bus as an example) are talking , it was like an episode of friends. One girl was taking to her friend "so i was like...and she was like....oh and he was like ...and of course they were like.....etc" Is it down to tv, popular culture, does Americana still have the same influence as it had in the past? Not that i mind, except 3 hours worth!

StupidLikeAFox

Who cares?

grumpytrousers

ColHol wrote:

Who cares?

I'm like, whatever....

CerebralCortex

The use of the word "like" shows how small their minds are. The more they use the word the smaller their minds are.

magick

I'm like, whatever....

LOL

Sparky

i blame like MTV and eh like nickelodeon

pickarooney

Great minds think a "like" but small ones say it?

DonkeyStyle \o/

CerebralCortex wrote:

The use of the word "like" shows how small their minds are. The more they use the word the smaller their minds are.

That's like a very small-minded attitude.

Sparky

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

That's like a very small-minded attitude.

yeah im like OMG :eek:

Catsmokinpot

its like the media is like taking control and like using television to like change our minds in to like vessels of stupidity, we've got to like take it to the man and like tell him straight. man! like you dont know what ur doin to us or nuthin man its like come.... on!

Sleepy

You've learned a valuable lesson today: people are fúckwits.

Welcome to reality.

Rb

Catsmokinpot wrote:

its like the media is like taking control and like using television to like change our minds in to like vessels of stupidity, we've got to like take it to the man and like tell him straight. man! like you dont know what ur doin to us or nuthin man its like come.... on!

like totally! i could not like agree more

ando

yea I had a good laugh with my sister about this a few months ago, so I was like: 'try get through this conversation without saying like' .... we were in bits laughing, she couldn't last 2 sentences lol..... ah man what am I like, like

grimloch

Originated from Scooby Doo I hear.

nlgbbbblth

ColHol wrote:

Who cares?

Martin cares

Catsmokinpot

all joking aside though tis quite annoying that were turning into america more and more each day

Sparky

Catsmokinpot wrote:

all joking aside though tis quite annoying that were turning into america more and more each day

Yeah for sure man.

Sarky

Every time I hear someone unable to string a coherent sentence together, I die a little inside.

F*ckwits indeed, Sleepy. F*ckwits indeed.

Blisterman

Well at least it's not the cork way like.

SprostonGreen

Catsmokinpot wrote:

all joking aside though tis quite annoying that were turning into america more and more each day

Couldn't agree more. I hate the way in their companies they enforce their ways, ie, drug tests, terminology, policies.

Rb

Blisterman wrote:

Well at least it's not the cork way like.

That's the worst kind, its sooo annoying like.

PlasseyMinstrel

magick wrote:

Americana

This has nothing whatsoever to do with Americana. That term refers to old time deep American customs/culture, not the modern commercial/urban/PC/Hollywood culture.

CerebralCortex

Good point we find it so easy to blame everything on America. :cool:

Prior Of Taize

CerebralCortex wrote:

Good point we find it so easy to blame everything on America. :cool:

its not as though the average american citizen can jump their fat ass out of the line of fire

miss_gonzo

I blame the internet for this


the art of communication is dying

but i woulnt call these people small minded
they just lack better words in expressing themselves

mike65

This is soooooooooooooo 2002. Really.

There was some geniune panic across the water when it was discovered
12 year olds were displaying clear evidence of Rising Circumflex syndrome. (aka questioning intonation).

But I think thats pased as all British teenagers now only spk txt.

Mike.

Ruaidhri

Intellectual Flatulence. and anyway it's sooo like,uhhh, i dunno, gee i guess it's soo last thursday.

grumpytrousers

mike65 wrote:

This is soooooooooooooo 2002. Really.

There was some geniune panic across the water when it was discovered
12 year olds were displaying clear evidence of Rising Circumflex syndrome. (aka questioning intonation).

But I think thats pased as all British teenagers now only spk txt.

Mike.

Ha - British Teenagers...they're all

"yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no, innit"

*marie*

Like OMG we sooo have way more important things to be like, worrying about.

Rb

*marie* wrote:

Like OMG we sooo have way more important things to be like, worrying about.

Totally, thats like SO true

Lord Oz

I say it's the school's fault, it's all gone down hill since they abolished corporal punishment!

Nightwish

bring back elecution!!! i mean electrocution

for every american mannerism the student shall get a non lethal yet painful shock

Pepe LeFrits

whatev, talk to the hand

jrey1981

Am I bothered though? But am I though? Look, face, bothered?

(viewers of Catherine Tate on BBC 2 will know what I mean)

Seriously, there is a section of a chapter about the use of the word "like" in a book called Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita if you want more information. Essentially it is a symptom of teenagers seeing themselves as mediators of their lives and their lives as their own media creation. He explains it better than I do, trying to put a socio-media-cultural theoretical basis on it...

And yep shows like Friends, etc. have played their part as well.

Mossy Monk

dude, like what the **** is going on with the thread man

ordinarily i wouldnt give a ****, but like OP i have been stuck on long journeys listening to it. it makes baby jeebus weep

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

like

ROFL
hahahahahahaahhahaha
that's genius

Laguna

...

Laguna

grumpytrousers wrote:

Ha - British Teenagers...they're all

"yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no, innit"

Now that's small minded. If we're to go down that road, then all Irish teenagers phraseology limits them to "Top of the mornin' to ye!" or perhaps "Where's me pot of gold"

grumpytrousers

Laguna wrote:

Now that's small minded. If we're to go down that road, then all Irish teenagers phraseology limits them to "Top of the mornin' to ye!" or perhaps "Where's me pot of gold"

I was being deliberately facetious. And would have posted a picture of Vicky Pollard from Little Britain if I could have found one....

cotillion

I say "like" all the time.

And to all the guys posting here putting in "like" as if it was regular speech, you's are dead funny, ha ha ha ha ha, my sides are splitting.

fischerspooner

Yes I too have been subjected to this like business on buses. I moved to clontarf a few months ago which is a more upmarket part of the northside. This "oh my god I was like" business seems to have affected posher teenagers more so than the less well off. I get the 130 bus from clontarf into town sometimes and this is where I'm most exposed to it. However when I visit my mam's house I usually take the 27 from town which goes to less privilaged areas. The girls on those buses speak completely differently. Yes it's not too nice to listen to either but at least it's a genuine accent and not some contrived trying to be american nonsense. And to those of you who say haven't we got more important things to worry about? Isn't boards all about complaining about the little irritations in life?

Sleepy

Sarky wrote:

Every time I hear someone unable to string a coherent sentence together, I die a little inside.

F*ckwits indeed, Sleepy. F*ckwits indeed.

Come join me on the next level of cynicism Sarky, it's great. You hear these kids and you just don't care any more. We're a dying breed who'll kill ourselves over oil in the next century or so anyway so what does it matter if there's a load of idiots out there? We've naturally de-selected ourselves already!

Undergod

Natural development of any society and culture is to take outside influences and be affected by them, and in turn, affect those influences. Basic memetics.

Taking American speech mannerisms is a normal natural progression, considering that america is the worlds dominant cultural power. It's all part of having a dynamic, living culture. IF our culture was dying, it wouldn't be open to outside influences.

That said, it doesnt stop me wanting to hit those kids with shovels.

karlh

jrey1981 wrote:

Seriously, there is a section of a chapter about the use of the word "like" in a book called Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita if you want more information.

you nailed it!

"each "like" is followed by a fleeting pose, held for just an instant -- the whole performance is a string of "takes" -- and the ends of key phrases curl up into questions, seeking audience indications that the visuals have been received: a silent and subliminal call-and-response sort of thing, and woe betide the clunky wannabe who can't follow the nuances, who can't improvise a version of her own... Among such girls, the interrogatory incantation takes on a tentative tone, a tone that reaches perpetually for reassurance... "

Sleepy

So what you're saying is that they're all just needy, insecure biatches?

SpAcEd OuT

next time listen out in a conversation for people saying "ehhh" you'll be suprised how often it comes up

Blisterman

I have to admit to saying "like" quite a lot.
I even sometimes find myself typing it out on MSN messanger occasionally, when i'm typing fast. Does anyone else do that?

grumpytrousers

SpAcEd OuT wrote:

next time listen out in a conversation for people saying "ehhh" you'll be suprised how often it comes up

Like Daire O'Briain, you mean?!?!

Seriously, people saying 'ehhh' is a way of 'searching for the word'...I used to do it, until I discovered that talking slowly is a lot better AND people tend to think you know what you're talking about...:D

the overuse of like - in both of its guises
"yer man was there and hes like 'you parked in my space' and the other fella is like 'I did not' and they were both like..."

and

"like, you have no idea, like, how expensive those shoes were, like and you could have, like got them in Office for, like thirty Euro cheaper"

are both rather irritating, although if I'm honest, the former I can live with; it's kinda an idiomatic idiosyncracy - it removes one word "said" and replaces it with "like" and I suppose some people can do it and some people can't....