Thanks to an organization calling themselves the Academy of Linguistic Awareness, these posters are being plastered around major cities in the world. Thank you for the awareness you bunch of inconsiderate ‘ballies!’ Getting bored of your weekly Scrabble club doesn’t mean you have to now form organizations in the hope to make us become aware of what idiots we sound like when we try open our mouths. Or aid us in the battle of stopping this easy -“it just rolls off the tongue” without us even thinking about it- word.
WE LIKE DON’T KNOW WE DOING IT, SO LIKE WE CANT STOP OKAY!
Tonight we had some of the family round for dinner before I leave for Cape Town to start my final year at UCT. Apart from Pasta & Sorbet for desert, a good couple of laughs, Arsenal winning 3 – 0 and the conclusion of the night all around a laptop watching The Antwoord’s Music Video’s on YOUTUBE which turned into “MY DOG SWOLLOWED 9 GOLFBALLS” – there was a huge laughing debate on the misusing of the word “like.”
I can’t say that the youngsters sitting around the table tonight put across a well justified and strong argument. Partially because every time we tried to, we got shut down for using the bloody word again. It got to a point where someone even ‘dinged’ their glass for every time we misused the word, and then packed up laughing. Do you have any idea how that feels ? When, without even knowing, you use the word three times in a sentence. Not only does it sound like the nearest church’s orchestra but it just caused more “likes” in the whole process after forgetting your original thought process. Eventually we had a blink 182 rock-noise effect going.
If you in anyway unsure of what a blink182 rock-noise effect might sound like; You probably don’t misuse the word “like”, you find the Golden Oldies a treat on a Sunday Morning, you don’t like Superga’s as your weekend footwear choice and still battle to grasp the full concept of either the Internet or the Smartphone.
And then I found out how the trend came about, and I wanted to take a massive steak knife and a gigantic glass and ‘ding’ it so loud; to prove a point without revisiting the rock-noise effect. What about more of a "drum & bass" noise effect?
“Valley Girls have influenced speech patterns in a way that is remarkable. This ‘Valley Girl’ trend hit the apex of popularity in the 1980s, culminating in a 1983 movie staring Nicholas Cage bearing the same title. The hip lingo used in the movie, and all across the world, had teen girls interjecting the word ‘like’ in every sentence. Other words include; dude, sweet & totally.”
These girls growing up in the 1980s are now mothers of teenagers. I knew it, all you woman who wanted Nicholas Cage’s slippers under your bed, were not doing any justice to our linguistics. Us children use the word ‘like,’ not to compare, not to indicate preference, but just intermittently and nonsensically because it was YOUR trend once upon a time.
Valley Girl (or Val, Val Gal) is a stereotype leveled at a socio-economic and ethnic class of American women who can be described as colloquial English-speaking, materialistic, self-centred, hedonistic, and often sexually promiscuous. "Val-speak" is also a form of this trait, based on an exaggeration version of the '80s. This went on to effect the world through mainly hollywood, television, music & the radio.
DAMN YOU AMERICANS. ITS ALWAYS YOU LOT.
Just totally put it in like the dictionary now as like a conjunction, and then us retards will all be sweet.
At least for now it doesn't effect the ability to write, thank goodness. The ear accepts what the eye will not. Until some american Valley-Girl writer comes along with an Oprah best read novel award.
Then all you Ballies are (l*#e) screwed too!
DING.
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