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DavidS - Jun 13, 2012 8:08:47 am PDT #9492 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I don't misuse "literally." And in my mind "totally" is usually accompanied with air quotes, and a Valley Girl accent. Though if I'm talking to Emmett we will use the I Love You, Man approved "Totes Magotes" instead.

My worst verbal tics are "you know" and "kind of" and when I'm being interviewed on the radio or for a story I have to consciously pause and formulate my sentences for a millisecond before I reply to eliminate them.

I would never correct somebody's grammar. That would be rude. But if they're somebody I know and like I will mock them to their face. It's a sign of affection.

Steph L. - Jun 13, 2012 8:27:42 am PDT #9493 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

My worst verbal tics

I cannot excise "like" from my spoken English. As in "Steve grabbed the book, and he was like 'This is a better movie!' and I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'"

It's a plague. I try to stop and then it totally creeps back in.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 13, 2012 8:28:12 am PDT #9494 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Totes creeps back in.

tommyrot - Jun 13, 2012 8:32:28 am PDT #9495 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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tommyrot - Jun 13, 2012 8:34:00 am PDT #9496 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

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Burrell - Jun 13, 2012 8:37:55 am PDT #9497 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'

Yeah, yeah, I overuse 'like' too. It even grates on me when *I* do it, and yet I say this all the time!

I feel like I'm channelling Janice the Muppet: Like ya know, for sure, REALLY! ::tosses hair out of eyes::

§ ita § - Jun 13, 2012 8:40:37 am PDT #9498 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have to rank literally as a pretty poor intensifier, because it's like setting the volume to 11. I'm deaf now, it doesn't matter anymore.

I am not doing today well. I'd really really like a redo of everything except that great fic I read before work. Well, technically, redoing that wouldn't be bad either--it's just that everything else should change.

-t - Jun 13, 2012 8:42:08 am PDT #9499 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

As in "Steve grabbed the book, and he was like 'This is a better movie!' and I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'"

I have a lot of fondness for that usage. Also the similar application of "all". As in "so I was all, 'I have to see what book they're talking about' but I didn't want to interrupt."

Jesse - Jun 13, 2012 8:43:12 am PDT #9500 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ditto with the "was like" and "was all" to mean "said."

I just had the thing where I saw someone in the hallway and went, "CRAP! You need something from me. What is it?"

Polter-Cow - Jun 13, 2012 8:44:54 am PDT #9501 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ditto with the "was like" and "was all" to mean "said."

Yep. I'm like, "So I was like," all the time. I don't think I use "was all" as much.

I'm an English major and everything.

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