Speed Of Thought

[mushroom25]

A friend who lives in Montreal was recently in a cafe overhearing two groups of students. Like the like anglophone like group like seem like to be like speaking like English like but he like was like not really like sure ... like. The other group were speaking French.
Do anglophone kids have to artificially, like, slow their speech to match their speed of thought? just asking for him..... like.

[douglas9401]

Seems like it.

[Tuvok]

You like like.

[Maydup]

Interesting, I didn't realise it was happening in all English speaking countries. I'd love to know where and why it started ..... if only other more useful practises could catch on world wide so affectively.

[jno]

this was going on when I was a child, decades ago; no point in seeing it as some kind of millennials' failure.

[Canary42]

[Tilly2]

I thought the use of 'Like' was a Liverpudlian thing, like.

[Maydup]

Oh no, its like everywhere Tilly.

[Mamyalynne]

It's not like here like - but then no one can understand us anyway...like.

[woofgang]

its simple.....young people have to do annoying things so old people have something to moan about

[jno]

nobody moaned at us, woofgang. But they'd just been through a war, so they didn't waste a lot of their time on trivia.

[Tilly2]

I don't think I ever got into the lingo of the time I was in. I never said, fab, groovy, cool or peace man.
I'm an oddbod

[237SJ]

You think "Like" is bad? What about "Lark" That drives me nuts. Google the latest KFC advert to hear it

[woofgang]

jno...I was thinking of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, mini skirts and so on.

[woofgang]

also

[woofgang]

and of course this one from Socrates, who, sadly, isn't on Youtube.

"“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

[Tilly2]

Plus ça change...

[Peter Pedant]

yeah but no but
it used to be 'ya know...' in the sixties - like

I think your fren' was doing a bit of francophone cultural imperialism - and the French students were not talking about football or rugby but were glorying the drama of racine and corneille ....

someone - it cd have been one of your frenz Mushie was going a sociolinguistic MA on teenage speech and was asked what he had learnt ....

" that teenagers can talk for an hour about foorball and not say anything at all"

[woofgang]

"I don't think I ever got into the lingo of the time I was in. I never said, fab, groovy, cool or peace man.
I'm an oddbod"

Tilly the really cool people didn't