Like, Stop Saying Like

Started by TehBorken, Jun 16 06 06:50

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TehBorken

 Dissident wrote:
Well said . . . uh, written, TB.  

Lol. When I was doing tech writing for Boeing I used this tagline:

Teh Borken
Boeing Tech Writing Services - IPMDS
"Wee Right Goode Sew Ewe Don't Half Two"
 
The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

Gopher

TehBorken wrote:
Dissident wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]So, grammar Nazi, what are the confusions that get you?[/SPAN]

Eye never no witch word too ewe's when aye right something!

 ...

 You'll be even more confused when the Queen dies and we all have to use the King's English instead..

 

A fool's paradise is better than none.

Popular Girl

  [p class="MsoNormal"][span style="" lang="EN-US"]Ozmg, like, you guys are so lame! When I finished reading this post I was like, wtf? Like, don't you guys have anything better to do? Geez... what I'm supposed to say when I like something, like shopping? Hellooo! These people from Academy of Linguistic Awareness will never get what they want, like, what a losers! Bleh![o:p][/o:p][/span][/p]

Adam_Fulford

Just think of "like" as a verbal comma and "know what I mean?" as a verbal period.

Future Canadian

Pronounced "Gnomesayin'?"  
...religion has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in the early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle ecplipses with such care that in time they were able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others

Future Canadian

...And here's my beef with misusing of language while we're at it, using quotation marks as emphasis. As in signs at coffee shops that say:
Try our "delicious" mochas.
Foolish mortals.
 
...religion has made some contributions to civilization. It helped in the early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle ecplipses with such care that in time they were able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others

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