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[FarmerPug]

where has the obsessive overuse of the word like in sentences come from

[sirwiggum]

where has the obsessive overuse of the word like in sentences come from

From like, American TV, it's, like, *soooo* annoying

<cue canned laughter>

[Welly]

Oh my god, you are soooo right, I totally get you. You are, like, my awesome forum buddy, woooh yeah, wooh, wooooh.

[sirwiggum]

Could you *be* any more sarcastic? <whoop whoop yea>

[steve_earwig]

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine . . .
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine . . .
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a . . .

Like, OH MY GOD! (Valley Girl)
Like - TOTALLY (Valley Girl)
Encino is like SO BITCHEN (Valley Girl)
There's like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stuff
It's like so BITCHEN cuz like everybody's like
Super-super nice . . .
It's like so BITCHEN, like . . .

On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchen clothes
Tosses her head 'n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin' in there

Anyway, he goes are you into S and M?
I go, oh RIGHT . . .
Could you like just picture me in like a LEATHER TEDDY
Yeah right, HURT ME, HURT ME . . .
I'm sure! NO WAY!
He was like freaking me out . . .
He called me a BEASTIE . . .
That's cuz like he was totally BLITZED
He goes like BAG YOUR FACE!
I'm sure!

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine . . .
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
Okay, fine . . .
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a . . .
It's really sad (Valley Girl)
Like my English teacher
He's like . . . (Valley Girl)
He's like Mr. BU-FU (Valley Girl)
We're talking Lord God King BU-FU (Valley Girl)
I am SO SURE
He's like so GROSS
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
It's like totally disgusting
I'm like so sure
It's like BARF ME OUT . . .
Gag me with a spoon!

Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A pair of jeans to fit her butt
And where to get her toenails cut

So like I go into this like salon place, y'know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done
And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails
Are like so GRODY
It was like really embarrassing
She's like OH MY GOD, like BAG THOSE TOENAILS
I'm like sure . . .
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, y'know . . .
I was like really embarrassed . . .

Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure

Like my mother is like a total space cadet (Valley Girl)
She like makes me do the dishes and (Valley Girl)
CLEAN the cat box (Valley Girl)
I am sure
That's like GROSS (Valley Girl)
BARF OUT! (Valley Girl)
OH MY GOD (Valley Girl)

Hi!
Uh-huh . . . (Valley Girl)
My name?
My name is Ondrya Wolfson (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Ondrya (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh . . .
I know (Valley Girl)
It's like . . .
I do not talk funny . . .
I'm sure (Valley Girl)
Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)
I am a VAL, I know (Valley Girl)
But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl)
Huh-ah . . . (Valley Girl)
So like, I don't know (Valley Girl)
I'm like freaking out totally (Valley Girl)
Oh my God! (Valley Girl)

Hi -- I have to go to the orthodontist (Valley Girl)
I'm getting my braces off, y'know (Valley Girl)
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
I'm freaking out
I'm SURE
Like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross . . .
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool, y'know
So you can see my smile
It'll be like really cool
Except my like my teeth are like too small
But NO BIGGIE . . .
It's so AWESOME
It's like TUBULAR, y'know
Well, I'm not like really ugly or anything
It's just like
I don't know
You know me, I'm like into like the clean stuff
Like PAC-MAN and like, I don't know
Like my mother like makes me do the dishes
It's like so GROSS . . .
Like all the stuff like sticks to the plates
And it's like, it's like somebody else's food, y'know
It's like GRODY . . .
GRODY TO THE MAX
I'm sure
It's like really nauseating
Like BARF OUT
GAG ME WITH A SPOON
GROSS
I am SURE
TOTALLY . . .

[teamster1975]

I've got that on a cassette somewhere, where's the spliff emoticon?

[Welly]

We had a family gathering a couple of years ago and there was a family of Americanists there, when chatting to one of the sons (about 20yrs old) he looked massively shocked when I stated that me and my wife enjoy 'eating out' when we get the chance. He went off and said something to his sister too - who looked over at us strangely.

It was only later when I happened across an American definition of 'eating out' that his apparent shock was clearly justified, he probably couldn't sleep for weeks after that........

[teamster1975]

I bet he asked his wife if they could eat out more often!

[sirwiggum]

Americanists. I knew a guy and girl said they were "roommates". I assumed therefore that it polite way of saying they were in a relationship.

Apparantly roommates = flatmates.

[FarmerPug]

i once spoke to a pair of americans, two words became quite heavyilly used in the sentences 'oh my god' and 'really' and coca cola was all they ever drank. But quickly i reverted to speaking extreme cultchie (rural talk) with baii and quare jab lad being some examples it quickly confused them as much as it annoyed me to hear them talk.

[sirwiggum]

i once spoke to a pair of americans, two words became quite heavyilly used in the sentences 'oh my god' and 'really' and coca cola was all they ever drank. But quickly i reverted to speaking extreme cultchie (rural talk) with baii and quare jab lad being some examples it quickly confused them as much as it annoyed me to hear them talk.

Someone in Scotland when I started uni got offended cause I said to them "yer a quare geg!" (as in, you are a good laugh)

[Welly]

I used to work with an Irish fella who used to say "how's she cuttin?" and then something about "with belts on?"

What's that about?

[sirwiggum]

I used to work with an Irish fella who used to say "how's she cuttin?" and then something about "with belts on?"

What's that about?

It's the equivalent to how the French would say

"Ca va?"

"Ca va bien!"

[highlander]

Someone in Scotland when I started uni got offended cause I said to them "yer a quare geg!" (as in, you are a good laugh)

"quare" sounds like "queer" which is either "gay" (in most English-speaking countries) or "weird" (in Scots tongue)

"You're a good craic" would have been more appropriate (I think "craic", pronounced "crack", means the same thing in both Scotland and Ireland).

[Doggy]

Plenty of scope for misunderstandings there then.

Maybe that's why Saturday nights can be so eventful in the Central Lowlands etc....