"I was like"

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

I don't think it's just kids who use it though, I've even heard men in their 50s saying it. In fact most people do now. It's annoyingly contagious for some reason.

 

[1959]

How about people who use 'of' instead of 'have'.
Should of, would of, could of instead of should have, would have, could have.
It makes no sense whatsoever and drives me mental.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Following on from "Can I get", My turn to rant about the English of young people, why has this stupid phrase started?

"I was like" at the beginning of every RUDDY sentence

I was like........... and the she was like.............. and then he was like..........


Having to get a bus to work full of school kids, literally EVERYONE was talking like that... Is it just school kids and chavs that talk like that?

A big bug bear of mine is that people use the word "literally" too often and incorrectly. Like your post here.

Also, my other pet hate is Australians that feel the compulsion to start every sentence with the word "look", especially prevalent in their sportsmen.

Interviewer: "How do you think you played today"
Sportsman: "Ah look, it was tough out there today blah blah"

That does my head in !!

 

[RM-Taylor]

It is just how everyone speaks now-a-days.

To label everyone a chav getreal1, well that's wrong. Not everyone in the UK would associate being one, although most people speak like this now.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I saw this thread title and I was like 'whis is his problem?' you know what i mean?

 

[The Grockle]

Following on from "Can I get", My turn to rant about the English of young people, why has this stupid phrase started?

"I was like" at the beginning of every RUDDY sentence

I was like........... and the she was like.............. and then he was like..........


Having to get a bus to work full of school kids, literally EVERYONE was talking like that... Is it just school kids and chavs that talk like that?

I get the bus every morning form West Croydon to Redhill you would not believe some of the lingo the kids spout! This one kid called the bus driver a ‘rasclot’ when he wouldn’t let him on a bus without a pass. I understand from some west Indian friends that this is a jamacan term.

Some other words and phrases I’m exposed too (mostly from white kids) are

You Bummberclut

Lowe it bruv

That’s long or he’s on a long? Wtf

I’m vexed

To the bus driver ‘oi big boss man’

He’s gonna get merked blood

I’m only 25 but these kids make feel completely out of touch. When I was at school every kid wanted to talk like a wide boy cockney now it seems all kids wanna talk like yardies!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I get the bus every morning form West Croydon to Redhill you would not believe some of the lingo the kids spout! This one kid called the bus driver a ‘rasclot’ when he wouldn’t let him on a bus without a pass. I understand from some west Indian friends that this is a jamacan term.

Some other words and phrases I’m exposed too (mostly from white kids) are

You Bummberclut

Lowe it bruv

That’s long or he’s on a long? Wtf

I’m vexed

To the bus driver ‘oi big boss man’

He’s gonna get merked blood

I’m only 25 but these kids make feel completely out of touch. When I was at school every kid wanted to talk like a wide boy cockney now it seems all kids wanna talk like yardies!

Rarrrssclart

'llow that

long ting

I use ALL of these phrases on a daily basis. It adds colour to the language.

so 'llow you, rarsclart

 

[blue'n'white]

And when the voice goes up at the end of a SENTENCE
Like you're asking a QUESTION
I believe that's the fault of our colonial cousins in AUSTRALIA

All of these things that people have mentioned really rile me.However it's not just spoken English - I had an e-mail from my 20 year old neice who stated that she was "gud". I mean it's not as though the word "good" is a hundred letters long and would have taken her an hour to write it.
I do despair sometimes . . . in fact most of the time at the way the English language is being mangled

 

[countrygull]

The phrase I hate is when shop assitants call you `there`. As in - `you OK there`? Who me? Where?
Petty I know, but I deplore it. `Can I help you` would be fine.

 

[Napper]

I don't think it is chavs that use the "I was like" phrase. I've heard many seemingly middle / upper class art types using it as well. I also find that these types also say everything in the tone as if it's a question.

Irratates the hell out of me

Maybe I'm just getting old and miserable

 

[Don Quixote]

i hate that... and i found myself doing it the other day!!! it was , like, so weird.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I ain't bovvered by it.

 

[Horsham Gull]

yeh but no but yeh but SHUUP

 

[The Oldman]

To add to the list
"see you later"
"If you will"
and the sound "Meh"

 

[John Dorian]

"I turned around and I was like, Im really tired today, d'you know what I mean"

Is it ?

 

[The Large One]

I don't think it is chavs that use the "I was like" phrase. I've heard many seemingly middle / upper class art types using it as well. I also find that these types also say everything in the tone as if it's a question.

Self-important, never-had-a-negative-emotion-in-the-over-comfortable-lives, I'm-sooooo-interesting-so-I'm-going-to-talk-so-loud-everyone-will-have-to-hear-me-on-the-train, look-at-me female student bratlets at Sussex University, for instance.

It's 20 times worse when they do it into their mobile phones.

"You've got nothing to say, and you're saying it far too loud, so shut the giddyfuck up, you failed foetus..."

 

[clarkey]

Rarrrssclart

'llow that

long ting

I use ALL of these phrases on a daily basis. It adds colour to the language.

so 'llow you, rarsclart

This is a weird one, Im only 18 but i only heard this for the first time recently. And it can be used two ways, which mean the complete opposite and can be really confusing.

 

[Frutos]

Is it ?

Innit.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

Innit.

Blud.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

Another word used way to much is "safe"