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Zeitgeist21
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 Message 17 of 19
05 April 2010 at 11:58am | IP Logged 
Johntm wrote:
kyssäkaali wrote:

Like (as in, like, when you, like, talk like this) - niinku

Like I've always wondered like how other languages like deal with this.
I also have tried to define like when used in that manner, and what (if anything) it's there for. Can anyone enlighten me? Why the hell do we do this?


I'd guess that's it to aviod a silence when you're trying to think what to say. In (at least most) of the English speaking countries a pause in a conversation is seen as awkward so most people use fillers to avoid it, like "How do I look?" "Errrr you look errr like errr great" :D

I do it like all the time and wanna like stop using it when I like speak ;)
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 Message 18 of 19
06 April 2010 at 6:31am | IP Logged 
WillH wrote:
Johntm wrote:
kyssäkaali wrote:

Like (as in, like, when you, like, talk like this) - niinku

Like I've always wondered like how other languages like deal with this.
I also have tried to define like when used in that manner, and what (if anything) it's there for. Can anyone enlighten me? Why the hell do we do this?


I'd guess that's it to aviod a silence when you're trying to think what to say. In (at least most) of the English speaking countries a pause in a conversation is seen as awkward so most people use fillers to avoid it, like "How do I look?" "Errrr you look errr like errr great" :D

I do it like all the time and wanna like stop using it when I like speak ;)
I mostly only use it for someone speaking/doing something. "He was like "Hey" or "She was like jumping up and down"
I'm trying to stop that :\
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 Message 19 of 19
06 April 2010 at 12:18pm | IP Logged 
oz-hestekræfte wrote:
(Interjections, or hyper-literally: outyellwords


ehem, more some like between-put words

By the way: in Danish we can signal that we are think by saying hmmm (or just hm). This can also indicate a mild degree of disapproval.

Same word, just repeated and spelt differently is something that comes out of the other end of a dog (høm-høm).


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