'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
Totes creeps back in.
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::
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.
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."
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?"
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.
I'm an English major and everything.
Journalism here, but I think they would prefer not to claim me.