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Subject: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Barry T Date: 10 Jun 03 - 01:17 AM I couldn't think of a tune to go with this whimsical poem, so I've stuck it in the BS section for now. Anybody with kids relate to the following? THE LIKES YOU'VE NEVER SEEN Here's a tale of language woe: The Likes you've never seen A virus spread from teen to teen Grammatically obscene. The virus came from outer space By aliens projected 'Infected just a single teen At first went undetected. The germ's a harmless parasite That lives in vocal chords But if it's left untreated will Sound every second word. Though the Likes are never seen They always can be heard They launch themselves so frequently Each sentence sounds absurd. Like, now the younger children, too Like, think it's really cool To talk like older bro' and sis' Ignoring grammar's rule. So far this vocal virus lives In English-speaking students To stop the germ right here and now Most surely would be prudent. For just the other day, they said It spread across the sea A teen in far off Paris, France Was heard to speak, "Like, oui!" For should these teens become adults All by their own admission They'll not kick the habit of This nasty preposition. So if your kids should utter "like" Disrupting words between Beware a parent's greatest fear: The Likes you've never seen! Like, Barry Taylor Victoria, British Columbia... and stuff |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 10 Jun 03 - 05:41 AM This is wonderful!!! I have a hobby of counting the "likes" that come out of the mouth of my beautiful, otherwise articulate daughter! I'm showing her this poem today! Allison |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: catspaw49 Date: 10 Jun 03 - 06:42 AM So like, uh, what's the gag? Like man, I doan git it. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: JennieG Date: 10 Jun 03 - 06:45 AM I reckon that if the word 'like' were to disappear from the English language, every teenager in the Western world would suddenly become mute........ Cheers JennieG who works in a girls' high school so is surrounded by Likes and Dislikes! Like, that is soooooo........... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 08:29 AM As if!! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Micca Date: 10 Jun 03 - 08:34 AM can you add "you know what I mean?"?(or its many variants and contractions) to this list also, it occurs every 2nd sentence in every conversation with 18-19 yo's where I work |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: artbrooks Date: 10 Jun 03 - 08:37 AM Like, ya kno, this is like not at all like factual! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 09:42 AM Dude!! It is like soooooo factual! Know what I mean!! This is da bomb. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: John Hardly Date: 10 Jun 03 - 09:53 AM So, I go, "that's like.......whoooooa." |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 10:00 AM AN' he's like, "No way!", but I'm like, "way way!" and it is like soooo really really cool that we are so like, tight, like, ya know? And I'm like, "This is soooo cool!". Then he goes like "Aw, shit!" and it is soooo over. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: wysiwyg Date: 10 Jun 03 - 10:37 AM Amazing Grace fits.... therefore so do O Little Town of Bethlehem, House of the Rising Sun and Gilligan's Island.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 10:41 AM A straight talking blues will serve, or you can adapt the C-A7-D7-G variant used in Salty Dog or Don't Let Your Deal Go Down. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Peter T. Date: 10 Jun 03 - 11:11 AM But the question that no one seems to be able to answer is why "like" -- my hypothesis is that "like" and "as if" are "set up" words that derive from setting a scene ("I'm like, X, and he's like, Y, I mean "as if") that one is slightly distant from, in turn deriving from a televisual background. "As if" being part of an ironic cultural appraisal. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: GUEST,Ditzee Lee Date: 10 Jun 03 - 11:47 AM Like this is too cool! Like, wow, you rads are talkin' just like me and my friends, like that is so cool. But, NOT if ya did it at the Mall! Like it reminds me of the other day at the mall where, like Danielle and Sharee were like hangin' out, d'ya know whad eye mean? Like they were there with their, oh my gawd, their m-u-th-erz, how gross is that? And, like they just went off on them. Oh, I know, it was like so roo-D, ya know what I mean? If my mother did that to me, I'd like just die of like embarrassment, I'd just like melt, ya know what I mean? So, like their moms started trying to like talk like this only it sounded like, well like a poem, like Mr. Evers was talkin' about in like school this last year, oh man, it was so cool, like he went on and on about some dude and his girlfriend and like they wound up, gawd it was so cool, their families were assholes and like they wound up killing themselves, but like she wasn't really dead, but he was sure she was, ya know what I mean, and so he did himself, too, but then she woke up, like just that chick in the forest when the prince dude kiises her, as if! Anyway, oh yeah, like so these moms were doing this song and like it was so g-r-o-s-s..like they were trying to be all hip-hop an' act like us, saying like this and like that and de da whoa-man...it was so embarrassing! I thought D & M were gonna die, like they were like so pissed off. It was like so tragic, ya know? Just like in that thing Mr. Evers was like reading to us last year, ya know what I mean? Keep cool like and nice job, real rad, like just don't do it in public around us kids, ya know what I mean? Ditzee Lee |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 12:32 PM The use of "like" as an interjection, a bridge over troubled concepts, a causeway between islands of apathetic incoherence, actually traces back to the beat generation, where it was found in expressions such as "Like cool" and "Like groovy". Later, as the beats became the Hip and then morphed into the Flower people, variants such as "Like far out" and "Like wow" were added to the colloquial stable. The usage precedes wide-spread televisual influence and can be found in the writings of Kerouac, who was contemperaneous with Captain Video, the Ranger, Buffalo Bob, and Rootie-Kazootie-the very buds of what was later to blossom into massive cultural degradation... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: HuwG Date: 10 Jun 03 - 05:06 PM It may get worse. I have to listen to too many teenaged men only, whining, "She's giving me all this, like, sh*t, and I keep telling her, like, I can't be doing with all this, like, sh*t, and she just keeps on etc etc" This is usually spoken in a loud, but barely intelligible, whining monotone. The teenaged girls' conversation is quite as vacuous, and includes lots of "likes", but they leave out the following expletive (usually). |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 05:17 PM I think it is inevitable that it will get "worse" considering it is an extension of an unbroken trend that goes straight back to the Hellenic era! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Bill D Date: 10 Jun 03 - 06:26 PM and the basic affliction has lasted now for enough years that young 'perky' female TV reporters have delivery styles that are barely different....especially the rising inflection at the end of sentences that sound I'm sure they are warned NOT to toss 'like' into news broadcasts, but they can report a gruesome dismemberment and make it sound cute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: katlaughing Date: 10 Jun 03 - 06:38 PM I've noticed that, too, Bill, plus they leave the "g" off of "ing" endings on their words, in a newscast. They're just in entertainment, that's all, poor things don't know any better. They are also no better about equipment. Some news intern at the station took a video camera to an outdoor event last weekend, in almost 100 degree heat, high altitude, strong sunshine. Left it out there all day so that it eventually fried the "ccd chips" which Rog says are what see the picture when taping. Anyway, it essentially ruined the very expensive camera and they didn't have a clue why! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: John Hardly Date: 10 Jun 03 - 06:47 PM Once we solve the "like" problem (great poem, by the way!) can we start working on the "str" consonant blend that now always gets pronounced "shtr"? shtrength conshtraint whatEVER. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 10 Jun 03 - 11:48 PM Kat -- them CCDs are charge-coupled devices, tiny chip like things that turn varying degrees of light into varying degrees of current. And yes, frying them with overdoses of direct sunlight burns them out and ruins the camera. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Hrothgar Date: 11 Jun 03 - 04:16 AM I've never seen the like before ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 11 Jun 03 - 11:11 AM Never saw the like Since I been born Great big lady With sea-boots on, O, Johnny come down to Hilo! Poor old man. So I'm like, "What?" and she's like "You know!" and I go like "No, what?" and she goes like, "No, you know...." and I'm like "Huh????" and she's like "You know you know" and I''m, "No, doh, I don't!" and she goes like "...!!!...". I mean what's UP with that? Does anybody know what's UP with that?? I'm like "Huh?? Like, what's up with that???", ya know? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Bill D Date: 11 Jun 03 - 11:16 AM you are all too good at that, Amos.....it worries me.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: JennieG Date: 12 Jun 03 - 03:11 AM And she's like......ohmygooorrrrddd...like...that is soooo Melissa, she's just like.....you know.... Are you serious???!!!!! Isn't it good to see that the future of the English language as we know it is safe. Cheers JennieG who is often highly entertained by the girls in the aforementioned girls' school |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: Amos Date: 12 Jun 03 - 04:05 PM I just love the completely synthetic enthusiasm they briong to bear on the worst stories, riveting you to your chair with the high-blown cheeriness of a party-hostess wehile they explain that 53 human beings were accidentally obliterated by a gas explosion in Baden-Baden or some such. Wheee!!! Then they tell you about a low-pressure front moving down the coast with exactly the same emotional mix, as though it were something to get excited about. Wheee!!! Jaysus, where's Walter when you need him??! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Likes You've Never Seen From: GUEST,Johnny in OKC Date: 13 Jun 03 - 03:33 AM I blame Maynard G. Krebs. If these kids could be shown the ANCIENT "Dobie Gillis" TV shows ... and realize how like rully O-LL-D this expression is, they'd drop it. Johnny in OKC |
