John Pickup wrote:Why do so many people start their sentences with "basically"? I find that annoying.
Basically it's herd mentality. (
sorry)
Courtenay wrote:I like hate it when like people are like always putting "like" in like every sentence as like every second word, like when someone is like "and she was like 'woah!' and I'm like 'what?'" and like, you know, like that...
Seriously, like do they even, like understand, like how annoying it is? Like what?!
Erm nope, I actually use 'like' when speaking, although definitely not as much as in these sentences above.
I use erm when writing, and eh, er, umm etc. However, I happen to be able to draw the line between casual conversation and an actual piece of writing/literature, and it's not hard to omit all those likes/ers/umms/ehs altogether. But I've noticed that a lot of young people who write very well completely undermine the quality by that kind of language. An absolute shame. (and yes.. the superlative is quite necessary here .)
What really annoys me is when people say "I should of told her." No, you should not HAVE said of instead of have in the first place.