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potin14p · Joined: 04 May 2006

"I went, like, to the shops, and then, like, we went and bought like, clothes"
A 12-yr old student of mine speaks like this ALL THE TIME. I don't know where she picked this habit up from, but its so ingrained, she doesn't even realise that she is saying it.
Does anyone have any ideas how we can break her habit? Or can i just hope that she'll grow out of it?

jaderedux2 · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Location: lurking just lurking

Hmmm? 12...well, um...like you wouldn't um...like understand cuz you are um..like an adult and so um...uncool. Kid watches alot of western teen movies...and like need to get away from them.

Don't worry. Hopefully they will grow out of it.

Like cizle and shibby and such.

Jade

Captain Courageous · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Location: Bundang and loving it

I had a student for intensives who did that. She was 9 years old, spent a lot of time in Canada, and spoke so fast it made your mind bend.

"You lived in Canada for awhile, right?"
"I lived in, like, Canada for, like, three years."
"I can, like, tell."
"Like, how?"
"It's, like, the little things."

rhinocharge64 · Joined: 20 Sep 2006

Perhaps she was taught by a Scouser or Manc!!

hubba bubba · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xp7Nh_Z99yY&mode=related&search=

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

I hate it when people, like, talk like that.

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

just another day · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:22 am Post subject:

she must have like... oh my gawd! grown up in the valley! like for sureeeeeeee. Laughing

Hellsmk2 · Joined: 04 Jul 2007

[quote="rhinocharge64"]Perhaps she was taught by a Scouser or Manc!![/quote]

I've never met a Manc who said the word "like" several times per sentence (I'm from Manc).

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

Slap her upside the head everytime she says like. That'll stop her.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

She could be a fan of "America's Next Top Model." Like, fierce.

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 8:34 am Post subject:

When I was finishing my BEd program, my English teachable 'professor' was going on about a limited vocabulary, and how bad it was wehn one of his former students was telling him about her trip to London.

"It, was, like, wow!"

He was decrying the use of "wow".

Harris was right about teachers in the 90's and deadwood teachers in the classroom.

pest2 · Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada

what is it then? kelp? welp? hell? heel? ahhhh I know... "hemp!"

yeah, that is like help.

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

She sounds like a native speaker. The "like" disease spreaded to all 4 corners of the English-speaking world years ago. Given almost all native speakers are like "like, like, like" all the time, why bother correcting the student?

**the person who mentioned Scousers and Manc(unian)s was presumably referring to a different use of 'like' (the one that goes on the end of a sentence...."I was just walking to the shop, like"), since no-one in their right mind would blame Liverpool/Manchester or anywhere in England for "like" - it came from North America.

shantaram · Joined: 10 Apr 2007

I tried to explain this in my ill-fated teacher's conversational class at my public school.

"Sometimes people use the word 'like' in a sentence, but it has no meaning. It's, like,-" (pausing, realising I just used the word involuntarily)

I should have just went "Humph, humph, humph humph" and let them get on with their gossiping and eating their pizza. But that's another story.