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[Chancellor]

[wildchild]

Chancellor says:

[Chancellor]

[JZer]

[philyyy]

Like is only used by the more unintelligent members of society. If I met someone who was a "liker", I'd have grave doubts that I could be ars"" with them.

[AllOne]

like, i like dunno like the word i like hear here is 'yeah' and 'yeah?' and when I like heard all these like school teachers yeah like using yeah i like felt like yeahlling

[Twelvetongue]

Well, I'm a Californian and as a teaching assistant I kept on pronouncing "since" as "sense", utterly confusing the older teacher. I claim to abhor Valspeak, but low and behold, I have a Californian accent. It was a classic case of Jeff Spiccoli and Mr. Hand.

[SueH]

oh shet, I thought revolving vowels were going the other way!

[Aramas]

Kiwis dispense with vowels altogether. They make bad pns, stick pns in things , cook in frying pns and write with ball-point pns. They also have sx, sometimes leaving their sx on and sometimes sx times in a row, but too much of it sx.

They're also quite sensitive about it, and are prone to saying things like "Not pn, pn! Are you df?"

It's a very economical and versatile approach.

[sheeba]

I have no problem with pronunciation differences , slang and so on but there is one term that really gets to me ' innit'

The other day I met a Chinese guy in the gym.Spoke the best language that I have ever heard since I came to China.He had a London accent but for some reason at the end of EVERY sentence he would utter 'innit'

I haven't been in the UK properly for a few years but surely the youth aren't going around still doing Ali G impressions? That's just soooo sad !

[Mavis the Fat Fairy]

[Gregor]

The "like" phenomenon is indeed annoying. I seriously doubt that it will ever - EVER - enter "standard" English, as I see it as a stammer of speech, much like saying "um" (in Latin American Spanish, "este", in Chinese...I can't remember, but there is a word). I also used to hear "pues" a lot (substitute "well" in English, as in, "What do you think of Club America?"
"Well/pues, they could use some work this year..."

But it's funny to read all these old fogey posts about the decline of the language and educational standards and so on. Socrates used to write about the youth of HIS day, and the decline of educational standards back THEN.

There's nothing you can do about the march of time, especially in an unregulated language like English. Like it or not, "gonna" (even thus spelled) will likely become a proper word one day, as will "dunno" for "don't know." Hell, y'all, contractions were probably cursed at one point, as well, don't you reckon?
What I hate VERY MUCH is the fact that "nuclear" can be correctly pronounced, according to some dictionaries these days, as "nuculer" (thank Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes for that).

My pet peeve in modern speech, which I first noticed in 1992 Australia, was a rising tone after every flippin' sentence? It makes everything sound like a question? And for a long time, I thought I was meant to answer, but didn't really understand what the question was?
Surely, most of you have encountered that by now. I won't even do it as a joke. Even JOKING about it pisses me off.
Same with "like" for that matter.

[furiousmilksheikali]

[Stephen Jones]

[sheeba]