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maximus maximus

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I hear this line all the time.. " I was like...blah blah blah", and I don't think it is gramatically correct either. :confused:

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Ika

Ika

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Originally posted by: maximus maximus
Originally posted by: So
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hmmm.. wokay!!!!

I do not see the usage of this line either in UK or in Australia... seems very specific to US youth.
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I don't think they're actually trying to say wokay or anything, it's just the transition from "hmm" to "okay". In the middle of that, your mouth goes to the "w" shape, and you begin pronouncing "okay" at that point, making it come out like "wokay". I think.
 
SViper

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Well from talking with other people, they say "I was like..." when they are explaining a story, they say what they were thinking at the time, not what they actually said. For example, say "Jane" is telling me of a conversation she had with "Bob." Bob says something out of the ordinary in their conversation (as Jane explains it), then Jane tells me "I was like what the hell was he thinking?" It's what she was thinking at the time, but didn't have the intestinal fortitude to tell Bob.

Just my .02¢
 
Queasy

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I like totally don't like get it like either.....like.
 
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i had not noticed before, but now, any time i hear younger kids speak (teens) every other word is "like"...
it is annoying to me... as well as the fact that i have found hardly any young people know how to properly speak over the phone.

I get a lot of calls every day, many by teens and they have no idea at all how to have a conversation with someone even a little bit older then themselves. I am only 23, but i am still dumbfounded by the way younger kids speak. (not all kids)
 
rh71

rh71

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"I was like..." is better than switching between "I said..." or "I then did..."

If you're just arguing about using "like" in every other word, that's a different story.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Originally posted by: LolaWiz
i had not noticed before, but now, any time i hear younger kids speak (teens) every other word is "like"...
it is annoying to me... as well as the fact that i have found hardly any young people know how to properly speak over the phone.

I get a lot of calls every day, many by teens and they have no idea at all how to have a conversation with someone even a little bit older then themselves. I am only 23, but i am still dumbfounded by the way younger kids speak. (not all kids)
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Youre only 23?
Why did you get your goodies fixed?

Anyway, I am 27 and it seems to me we were just as rude back in the 90's as we are today.
Kids really havent gotten that much worse, we just think they have because we are more mature now.
 
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imported_LoKe

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It's a bad habbit of mine to use "like" a lot when quoting dialogue while telling a story. It's pretty embarassing to know that I make errors such as that, but eventually you learn and grow out of it.
 
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frankgomez75

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Originally posted by: maximus maximus
I hear this line all the time.. " I was like...blah blah blah", and I don't think it is gramatically correct either. :confused:

Comments / thoughts?
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I think ppl say that instead of "So I though to myself" or "I was thinking.."

For example instead of saying... "When he touched me I was thinking to myself... WTF!"
People say "When he touched me I was like WTF!"
 
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