This this this. Also, more debating, please - encourage and aid people to make a case, and to test the arguments put forward by others. From the workplace to dealing with officialdom it’s an empowering skill, while lacking it has a fairly high cost.https://twitter.com/StigAbell/status/1040134812542087168 …
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@tillers2214 memorably refused to listen to anything we said after the point at which we said the word “like”. Very successful tactic. (Like.) -
I insist that they start the sentence again without the “like” punctuation.
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"So.........I, like, agree with you"
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twt'd before I saw your reply - 'so' in front of any answer - drives me nuts as well
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.... and, like, not spending all day on Twitter, like, or, like, constantly checking their email, like! ....... and why, oh why, do they have to start almost every sentence with the word, “So, ..... “ Why aren’t schools insisting that pupils speak and write correct English?
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Or almost everyone interviewed starting their answers to any question with ‘So....’. Where did that suddenly spring from?
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Or beginning every sentence with "so".
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There are some very educated people on TV who do that! I hate it.
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So what about curing them from starting every answer with the word "so"?
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........ or 'So' at the start of every sentence
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Or “basically” - there would be silence in our house if teenagers couldn’t use either word......
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Like, I mean, I guess basically, umm like, err, like, you know what I mean?
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Or "y'know"
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Kinda....like....you know what I mean..... The full vocabulary of yoof today.
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Know what you mean like.
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