Like, you know, um, like, whatever
Koosi: I do not need fillers. During lulls in the conversation I simply give the humans this look and they spend the next few minutes trying to figure out what I mean. That is why cats are called “enigmatic”.
Christopher Hitchens examines the unstoppable onslaught of “like”.
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of “like” has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. But it didn’t start off that way, and might possibly be worth saving in a modified form.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
January 14th, 2010 at 07:19
The same with the tagalog, like “ano, kasi, ganito un, ganun, alam mo na…” it sick most especially when you are trying to get some information from a person and could not get it straight to the point!
January 14th, 2010 at 21:46
These fillers are all just over the place (especially in job interviews). I always feel the need to say “Can you please drop the “ano” or “like” when my interviewees shower me with them at the onset of the interview. Occasional use of “um” or “uh” is pardonable though.
January 15th, 2010 at 00:22
Or the Tagalog “parang.” It irritates me when young people cannot talk straight Tagalog without throwing in a hundred “parang” within a sentence.
I was talking to someone last Sunday who said something like this:
So diba, parang, hello, hindi kaya, parang sino siya? Alam mo yun, parang, siya na nga ang tinulungan tapos, hello, gosh!
January 16th, 2010 at 00:26
Christopher Hitchens,the author of “god is not great”? I’ve noticed how young “Inglisero” conios or wannabe conios on local tv and fm radio use the “like” filler every 10 seconds or so,even if it is completely unnecessary like “actually”. There is this new (but not young)male anchor on RPN9 who begins every sentence with “actually”. They think it’s cute but it highlights their inarticulateness. There are also young males who (ab)use the word “dude” like they are skateboarders or surfers from L.A.,even if they’ve never been out of Metro Manila their whole lives.