Why do so many young (and sometimes older) women talk like Valley Girls? (males, person)
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My biggest pet peeve is the word is "Like" being in every sentence!
My step daughter is constantly saying, "Like" and it gets so bad that we can't even follow her conversation because all we hear is Like, Like, Like!!!!
She's breaking the habit but it's been a slow process...probably because all her friends say it too!
And what makes it worse is when they combine "like" with their other favorite word: AWESOME.
Like its so awesome to say awesome like so many times in like one sentence, right?
It's the upspeak that drives me crazy - especially when they bring on someone of authority on TV or radio. That person of "authority" (almost always a woman that does this annoying thing) doesn't sound as if they are even sure of what they are supposed to know.
Uhhh...my daughter talks just like that and it drives me nuts, because she knows better. She is the latest generation of Valley Girls and her friends are no different. She isn't even a teenager, she is a twenty year old UCLA graduate.
"OMG" or "Oh My GAWD" in various different forms
The word "like" inserted between almost every other word..
Using the word "soooo" to add emphasis to something
"So, I was like OMG!! like I am soooo not ready for work today and he was like, you soooo have to try
and come in today, we are sooo shorthanded and I was like Oh My GAAWD, I am like soooo not feeling good today that I have to like call in sick"
"Omigod! That dress is sooooo you!!"
Yeah, UGH! I live near a college area and I often hear older women talking in variations like this also.
I guess the difference came when I travelled abroad for business recently and witnessed people actually expressing themselves well and these were not even native English speakers.
Two words, Frank Zappa.
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