I heard it so many times in my college classes. We’re supposed to be articulate and to the point but so many students kept saying “like” in place of “um”. Some people would say it about 30-40 times in one class! The teachers were really good at not following that example.
BTW, I don’t want to hear anything about college being an upper-class “liberal” environment. Young people in college are mostly conservative or abrasively apolitical.
Better to say “like” than “uh” or “duh”. At least “like” is a dictionary word.
Posted by: RaiderRich2001 | July 28, 2009, 12:48 am 12:48 am
YEAH,YOU KNOW LIKE SUCKS MORE.
Posted by: charlie | July 28, 2009, 1:40 am 1:40 am
Honestly, it has bgeun to grate on my nerves, this use of the word “like.” I, myself, have been trying to stay away from its use, yet I keep falling into the groove of replacing my “um” with “like” when I am with friends that use it more frequently than the average human would. However, it has proved problematic in language learning for some of my classmates: one has even taking to using it in Japanese! He will simply go “shumi ha nan desu ka? you know, like supootsu toka torainingu toka…” It’s horrible! And worst, he uses it around Japanese people who don’t know English.
So yes, it is the worst word in the English language, in my opinion.
Posted by: Regi | July 28, 2009, 1:41 am 1:41 am
Whatever :>
Posted by: WISDOM | July 28, 2009, 1:45 am 1:45 am
I just my job more difficult between ‘get’, ‘gonna, wanna….etc’ and now ‘like’ trying to teaching English to French executives. It makes the case for British even stronger and don’t LIKE that!
Rodney
Posted by: Rodney Wicks | July 28, 2009, 2:38 am 2:38 am
It’s bad when you hear grandparents “I’m like eehh. She’s like eeh”. My favorite was a granny saying “it took for like ever”.
It’s Valley Girl talk that saturated this country. Listen to media experts who are supposed to be professional speakers. “I’m like……
Posted by: Tom T | July 28, 2009, 2:43 am 2:43 am
I HATE that word and its over use by today’s youth. I immediately lose all respect for those who insist on sprinkling their speech with “like.” By the way, the word “Random” is a close second.
Posted by: Husky Miller | July 28, 2009, 4:10 am 4:10 am
It reminds me of the Caroline Kennedy interview that may have had something to do with her dropping out the replace-Hilary-in-the-Senate “race”.
Posted by: The_Mick | July 28, 2009, 7:12 am 7:12 am
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I don’t know, I like it!
Posted by: SamTyler1973 | July 27, 2009, 11:01 pm 11:01 pm
I heard it so many times in my college classes. We’re supposed to be articulate and to the point but so many students kept saying “like” in place of “um”. Some people would say it about 30-40 times in one class! The teachers were really good at not following that example.
BTW, I don’t want to hear anything about college being an upper-class “liberal” environment. Young people in college are mostly conservative or abrasively apolitical.
Posted by: Jake | July 27, 2009, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm
Better to say “like” than “uh” or “duh”. At least “like” is a dictionary word.
Posted by: RaiderRich2001 | July 28, 2009, 12:48 am 12:48 am
YEAH,YOU KNOW LIKE SUCKS MORE.
Posted by: charlie | July 28, 2009, 1:40 am 1:40 am
Honestly, it has bgeun to grate on my nerves, this use of the word “like.” I, myself, have been trying to stay away from its use, yet I keep falling into the groove of replacing my “um” with “like” when I am with friends that use it more frequently than the average human would. However, it has proved problematic in language learning for some of my classmates: one has even taking to using it in Japanese! He will simply go “shumi ha nan desu ka? you know, like supootsu toka torainingu toka…” It’s horrible! And worst, he uses it around Japanese people who don’t know English.
So yes, it is the worst word in the English language, in my opinion.
Posted by: Regi | July 28, 2009, 1:41 am 1:41 am
Whatever :>
Posted by: WISDOM | July 28, 2009, 1:45 am 1:45 am
I just my job more difficult between ‘get’, ‘gonna, wanna….etc’ and now ‘like’ trying to teaching English to French executives. It makes the case for British even stronger and don’t LIKE that!
Rodney
Posted by: Rodney Wicks | July 28, 2009, 2:38 am 2:38 am
It’s bad when you hear grandparents “I’m like eehh. She’s like eeh”. My favorite was a granny saying “it took for like ever”.
It’s Valley Girl talk that saturated this country. Listen to media experts who are supposed to be professional speakers. “I’m like……
Posted by: Tom T | July 28, 2009, 2:43 am 2:43 am
I HATE that word and its over use by today’s youth. I immediately lose all respect for those who insist on sprinkling their speech with “like.” By the way, the word “Random” is a close second.
Posted by: Husky Miller | July 28, 2009, 4:10 am 4:10 am
It reminds me of the Caroline Kennedy interview that may have had something to do with her dropping out the replace-Hilary-in-the-Senate “race”.
Posted by: The_Mick | July 28, 2009, 7:12 am 7:12 am