Does Your Country Have Language Pollution?

bigmck · Oct 31, 2010

In the United States for the last few years, an epidemic of "Language Pollution" has gone wild. What I mean is when people talk, every other word is "you know". == An example, "I went work today, you know, and when I got there, you know.......". You see what I mean. I hear people on the radio talk this way all of the time and it just drives me crazy. I was just curious if this very bad habit has crept into the language of other countries.

brianzion · Oct 31, 2010

over on this side of the pond is no different and what makes it worse is the kids picking it up

kodi · Oct 31, 2010

It's the same Down under

z3r010 · Oct 31, 2010

Yeah EN-US

alfred01 · Oct 31, 2010

Add Canada to the list. Sometimes I can't even follow the conversation.

Grimmjow · Oct 31, 2010

I think there isn't a country where more or less (like, you know)

that is not a case.

bigmck · Oct 31, 2010

It really surprises me that this has spread to all countries. I really only expected the US and Canada. Just think how the World will sound in 30 years. I can just picture diplomats with the "I mean, you know". Well the fortunate thing is that I won't be around to have to put up with it.

linnemeyerhere · Oct 31, 2010

I'm not happy that we use such words with almost no sense of there meaning or roots, but we all must learn to listen beyond the words for the intent and it is there we must make our determinations. I just think that we diminish ourself when we use any word too often and out of context. What drives me crazy is the made up political and economic phases that have permeated out society it makes understanding even legalize easy by comparison. Of course the reason for these new hybrid words is to throw us off track and to make things that in plain English or other languages that would be toxic and something to avoid suddenly re-phrased clean and desirable.

damiross · Oct 31, 2010

I feel like replying "no, I don't know - that's why I asked."

Swifty · Oct 31, 2010

It is the norm in society, its what the world is accepting, like back in the 90's there was a lot less of the "Junk" on tv because society was not willing to accept it, now in today's world we get shows like "Jersey Shore" and other vulgar things.

A Guy · Oct 31, 2010

C'mon...it's always been there. I can remember saying "Man" after every other word. "Wow man, we went to the movies man, and it was cool man". Years ago I was in line and the guy behind the counter was talking to his buddy while he worked. It was "Dude, did you see that show last night dude?" Dude, dude, dude. When I got to the counter I made a show of looking at his name tag. I said, "your name's not Dude?"

A Guy

Swifty · Oct 31, 2010

A Guy said:
C'mon...it's always been there. I can remember saying "Man" after every other word. "Wow man, we went to the movies man, and it was cool man". Years ago I was in line and the guy behind the counter was talking to his buddy while he worked. It was "Dude, did you see that show last night dude?" Dude, dude, dude. When I got to the counter I made a show of looking at his name tag. I said, "your name's not Dude?"

A Guy

Or like eh, eh ;P

Skulblaka · Oct 31, 2010

Language tends to evolve with the current minds, back in the 70's they used words like "rad" and "hip".

My first thought to what I thought you may have referred to is "text language", which is a true pollution to a weak mind.

Also in the attachment, notice the clothes and must I say, the hair.

LittleMiss · Oct 31, 2010

Skulblaka said:
Language tends to evolve with the current minds, back in the 70's they used words like "rad" and "hip".

My first thought to what I thought you may have referred to is "text language", which is a true pollution to a weak mind.

Also in the attachment, notice the clothes and must I say, the hair.

I agree I have had to clean up my "text" when using messenger, it was finding its way in to my regular typing

Skulblaka · Oct 31, 2010

LittleMiss said:
Skulblaka said:

Language tends to evolve with the current minds, back in the 70's they used words like "rad" and "hip".

My first thought to what I thought you may have referred to is "text language", which is a true pollution to a weak mind.

Also in the attachment, notice the clothes and must I say, the hair.

Click to expand...

I agree I have had to clean up my "text" when using messenger, it was finding its way in to my regular typing

It's funny that it requires practice, I've trained myself to fix typos and errors both in sentence structure and words used.

xarden · Oct 31, 2010

Yea nah, well... you know over here, uhm... its like... you know what I mean, eh?

Skulblaka · Oct 31, 2010

xarden said:
Yea nah, well... you know over here, uhm... its like... you know what I mean, eh?

There are virtually limitless combination's to what you could mean or to what "over here" could specify. :shock:

Same goes to the saying of; "this one guy".

xarden · Oct 31, 2010

yea nah, well actually what I meant was like... you know. How ppl alwayz subst letterz nd numb3rz when its jus as easy nd bout the same effort 2 spell the whole word proply. Mostly in txts nd such. Jezz I h8 wen ppl do dat. you kno. Wat i h8 most iz wen ppl actualy pronounse "lol" wit a blank exprssn insted of tiltin head bak and gigglin off a "haha" lol. yea. you know.

Skulblaka · Oct 31, 2010

xarden said:
yea nah, well actually what I meant was like... you know. How ppl alwayz subst letterz nd numb3rz when its jus as easy nd bout the same effort 2 spell the whole word proply. Mostly in txts nd such. Jezz I h8 wen ppl do dat. you kno. Wat i h8 most iz wen ppl actualy pronounse "lol" wit a blank exprssn insted of tiltin head bak and gigglin off a "haha" lol. yea. you know.

When I clicked to "Quote" the thread, I saw a lot of red. Also, you lost me somewhere in the middle of that paragraph, I could only understand, like, every fifth word you tried to type.

Also, imagine all of the green underlining due to sentence fragmentation.

xarden · Oct 31, 2010

Yea nah, thats basically the extent of what I have to put up with when communicating with some of the kids I have to deal with. Some adults too, actually...
More often than not, I have to text back asking them what they mean.

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