The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech
Submitted 3 hours ago by Codpiece@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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Zombie@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
You know what I’m sayin’?
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Oh to be fair “y’know” does grate me, y’know?
Along with every instructional YouTube video having multiple “go ahead and”.
kbal@fedia.io 47 minutes ago
Peak Grauniad
luciole@beehaw.org 2 hours ago
As a francophone I must cope with a diaspora of language snobs. Their ilk systematically go die on the same hill: hubris (it’s a Greek word look I’m of the privileged class fuck off shit eating peasants). Redundancy is a fundamental and necessary quality of the human language. It’s how we set the table for communication and restore its message despite imperfect transmission contexts. Imprecision is a fundamental and necessary quality of the human language. It’s how we approach and explore complex subject matters in real time we don’t fully grasp yet. It can be how we leave some information out for various reasons as well. So je vous emmerde monsieur de Bernières. The language will thrive and morph despite your protestations. The thesaurus and the dictionary will reflect these changes, not the other way around.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
But don’t you think it’s significantly more common now than twenty or thirty years ago, or have I just reached the age where it feel as if everyone is using ‘like’ every other word?
luciole@beehaw.org 12 minutes ago
Of course it’s different then twenty or thirty years ago, always is always will be.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
That’s tantamount to a hot take.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Like is often just replacing um or other hesitations.