One of the hardest most unexpected things about coming back to the US: Realizing how much Americans overuse the word "like." Listening to some girls talk, and they're averaging over 4 uses of the word "like" per sentence. How did we end up doing this to the English language?
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No, like, you're totally right. Like totally.
I actually* started adding more "likes", "kindas" and "sortas" to my speech to try to sound more natural amongst normal people, in the hope of hiding my eccentricity... * though saying "actually" too much comes naturally to me
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I do hate when you watch a talk you gave and notice you had a habit of saying "phrase x" wayyy to often. I went through like 3-4 phases of bad habits... "Um", "right", "like", etc.
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I wonder what words I overuse in English … probably "so".
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Hi there fellow human. Alternative speech patterns are indeed very useful to properly communicate with our human brethren.
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By "normal," you mean "American," right? Brits don't really seem to do the quotative like thing. Or am I wrong?
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well, like, you know... in italy there's a very similar case with young people, which seems to consistently underuse the incredible richness of our language... I guess it's related a lot to age and context...?
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It’s working Jon. Nobody suspects a thing.
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Notwithstanding that, I'm perpetually anxious should anyone ever become disabused of my, like, façade.
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