That sucks dude. I've been meaning to call you, but I haven't been going anywhere lately. We should like hang since we live a little closer now, yo.
Hello Peter. What's happening? Um, I'm gonna need you go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around nine, that would be great. (starts to walk away) Oh, oh, yea…I forgot. I'm gonna also need you to come in Sunday too. We, uh, lost some people this week and we need to sorta catch up. Thanks.
My daughter says "like" about 12 timers per minute of actual conversation. She's 15 and I honestly believe that she and her friends will not be able to break this habit as they get older.
This is MY KIND of thread. Uhhhh... Uhhhh... yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh... Uhhhhh... yeaaaaahhhhh... ummmm-Uhhhh... Nice one. How about Cuttino "youknowwhatamsaying" Mobley?? I wished media dudes and ladies just answered, AT LEAST ONCE: "No, Cuttino, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING." The GREATEST annoying habit is the "SO" at the end of a sentence, when there is absolutely nothing "so". Check out people saying: "Well, we're not going to [insert situation or issue here], so." Maybe "We will not do so" is right, and "So we will not do it" is also right. Next time, when someone says something that doesn't deserve a "so" at the end, and they say "so" at the end, say: "SO... what?" It's sure to get them to notice it themselves... maybe slap you once, but at least they will consciously NOT do it again, so...
"...and what not" I interviewed a co-worker years ago and he must have said this in his speaking 50 times. It didn't matter so much, because we hired him and what not.
I don't see a problem with um. It is not like 'like' and 'ya know,' which are words that don't grammatically belong in your sentence. Um is just a space filler -- and one that fills a vital function: it lets the person you're talking to know that they can't cut you off because you're still talking. I don't use um a whole lot, but I tend to use it more with aggressive talkers to make sure I don't lose the podium before I'm done. PS. While we're complaining, I have to complain about a vocabulary confusion that many people (even here) seem to suffer from. When you feel on guard about something, you are wary (which rhymes with Gary); when you are tired or fatigued, you are weary (which rhymes with leery).
My first high school principal would come on the intercom in the morning and say, "I'd like to make a couple or three, uh, announcements." He always said "a couple or three", though there were many more, and there were "uh's" in there the whole time. I tried to count the "uh's" and lost count at 60-something, and that was just for morning announcements. Maybe that was what inspired one of the student groups to take over announcing duties later that year.
I plead guilty to the umm..accusation. In Singapore they say "Lah" all the time as in, "What lah?" I've been tempted to work that in conversationally. I'm surprised no one's brought up "Dude" yet.
When I was a kid, my Dad used to take me to Rocket games and we'd always stay for Geno's post game interview. He used to do in over the PA system in the middle of the court. Not sure if he still does that. Anyway, there was one Rocket that used to start off every single answer by saying "No question about it, we blah blah etc...." This was in the early 80's. Anyone remember this? Was it Mike Newlin?
What I've really been wondering lately while sorting through metric screws at work, is how things really must be different everywhere else where they use the metric system. Imagine the dirty talk. guy "Measurements?" girl "77.4-69.4-77.4" guy "great" girl "So uh, how well endowed are you?" guy "Well I'm not one to boast, but I'm a solid 230 mm." girl "wow" guy "Soooo, have you ever thought about joining the 1.61 kilometer high club?" girl " giggle, blush "
Oh yeah, I remember that. Who was that? Also, I always seem to amplify the interview answer that starts with "most definately" pronounced "Mo debly" as in Mo debly, Bill, Defense, is ...um, Key. With a team like [x], you can't just let them score. It's all about effort. We just need to play basketball."
i remember saying "like" quite a bit back in middle school but, if i still do it, i don't notice it at all. and i don't think i've ever said "ya know." now umm, i don't think i abuse it, but i definitely use it, especially the way JV was talking about. sometimes you just wanna make sure you get to keep talking while your figuring out your next sentence or thought. i don't use umm in this situation, but there's this one professor who is my research advisor and if i finish a sentence and don't start the next one right away, he's already talking. it's damn annoying. my pet peeve is how people use "then" instead of "than." i think it's actually become the official version of the word now. people hear it in their head as "then" even though it makes absolutely no sense to use "then" when comparing two things and so they spell it that way (like moochie norris is worse then bobby sura). you'd think a 4 letter word wouldn't be all that hard to spell, but apparently it is. and it's bad enough when i have to see it all over this bbs, but you even see it in bill simmons columns. somehow a guy who writes for a living doesn't know the difference and neither does a guy who edits writing for a living. and now i'm friggin' starting to see "than" used instead of "then." that's just amazing.
Wow. Like, we remember when it was fresh, when it was really groovy, man. Watchin' Dobie Gillis. Wonderin' who this Warren Beatty dude was. Tha blonde chick was a fox. Totally. Being eleven years old, reading somthin' a cat wrote for a West Coast rag about LSD. Swore he traveled back into the womb. The womb, man! Wondered what that was all about. Found out later. Figured out it was an Aussie thing... a womb-bat. Do they fly? Woulda thought maybe, maybe, maybe they could. Maybe? Maybe no. Who knows. Look hard enough and you'll find out. Blue Cheer, Purple Double-Dome... look out for the grey tabs. Go eights and be cool. Go quarters and ride tha edge. Go halves and might find yourself in the trip tent. Traded some cokes and bananas for two and didn't hear the announcement on the speakers 'til after they were down the hatch, a whole each. Psychedelic barf, sparkled like diamonds. Whoops. Wasn't mine. Glad for the brass stomach, though. A gas to watch, really. Good to be upwind.... way upwind. A little jealous after, hearin' about the Hog Farm and the trip tent. Too much. Two weeks after Woodstock and hit a cow on the way. Nothin' stopped us. Got stopped on the way back for a broken headlight. Explained about the cow and made it back to H-town. What a freakin' trip. B.B.King, Canned Heat, Chicago, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton Blues Band, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Led Zeppelin, Nazz, The Quarry, Rotary Connection, Sam & Dave, Santana, Shiva's Headband, Sly & the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White!
I hate myself for actuallying saying "Ya know, like, um..." in that order in the same sentence. I'm actually trying to change the way I speak, being more articulate and the like.
