Does Your Country Have Language Pollution?

[LiquidSnak]

The worst was when I was at my fiancée's orientation for her culinary school, which is part of the Art Institute. This guy gets up, who has a DOCTORATE, and starts babbling, every other freaking word was "like."

"Like, you can't just graduate from school, and like, expect to like, have a job just like handed to you. Like, you have to work hard, and like network with people when you are here. Like, talk to people, make like connections..."

I really just wanted to punch him.

 

[xarden]

The worst was when I was at my fiancée's orientation for her culinary school, which is part of the Art Institute. This guy gets up, who has a DOCTORATE, and starts babbling, every other freaking word was "like."

"Like, you can't just graduate from school, and like, expect to like, have a job just like handed to you. Like, you have to work hard, and like network with people when you are here. Like, talk to people, make like connections..."

I really just wanted to punch him.

Like totally.

 

[Solarstarshines]

The worst was when I was at my fiancée's orientation for her culinary school, which is part of the Art Institute. This guy gets up, who has a DOCTORATE, and starts babbling, every other freaking word was "like."

"Like, you can't just graduate from school, and like, expect to like, have a job just like handed to you. Like, you have to work hard, and like network with people when you are here. Like, talk to people, make like connections..."

I really just wanted to punch him.

Like totally.

Im from Southern California land of ( Dude ) and (Awesome ) we would also be put in the same category as like this and like that but honestly us californians don't use likes as opposed to saying (Dude ) all the time

 

[mickey megabyte]

I hate language pollution. If you can't talk right, please just shut up. That's just my thought though.

do you mean "if you cannot speak correctly..."

 

[spinifex]

I hate language pollution. If you can't talk right, please just shut up. That's just my thought though.

do you mean "if you cannot speak correctly..."

:roflmao::roflmao:

 

[noobvious]

I hate language pollution. If you can't talk right, please just shut up. That's just my thought though.

do you mean "if you cannot speak correctly..."

Epic!
:roflmao:

 

[LiquidSnak]

I hate language pollution. If you can't talk right, please just shut up. That's just my thought though.

do you mean "if you cannot speak correctly..."

I'm very certain you mean can not.

As in, you can not communicate properly through spoken medium.

 

[mickey megabyte]

a yank telling a brit how to spell?

even epic-er!

check the oxford english dictionary, or do a quick google, my transatlantic cousin.

 

[noobvious]

I hate language pollution. If you can't talk right, please just shut up. That's just my thought though.

do you mean "if you cannot speak correctly..."

I'm very certain you mean can not.

As in, you can not communicate properly through spoken medium.

a yank telling a brit how to spell?

even epic-er!

check the oxford english dictionary, or do a quick google, my transatlantic cousin.

 

[LiquidSnak]

If I recall correctly, cannot is used situations where you are unable to completely, as in, there is no way to can.

I cannot know who the guests are that are viewing this topic. Can not is when, under different circumstances, you can, like when someone can not speak correctly.

But it's really not here nor there, as my intended joke was received

 

[SledgeDG]

English is only my 2nd language (as a former European I obviously learned GB-EN) but I seem to recall that constructs like can't (can not), shan't (shall not) wouldn't( would not) are just as perfectly correct as don't and haven't and not considered "slang".
To all the language-pro's: please enlighten me if that's just another one of those quirks between GB-EN and US-EN



To stay on topic I admit that my biggest pet peeve if it comes to language (besides the use of "txt speek)" is the use of like as a "filler".
Where is that coming from? The Scooby-Doo Generaton ??
:roflmao::roflmao:

-DG

 

[LiquidSnak]

More like the butt-head kids I want to slap generation, lol.

 

[SledgeDG]

That's why I have such a respect for my wife...I couldn't be a teacher in this country. I would probably slap those kids...lose my job and get thrown in jail within the first week

-DG

 

[smarteyeball]

The English language has always been a dynamic and evolving language, continually adapted and adjusted to suit contemporary needs.

One generations pollution, is another generations standard. Just as preceding generations would find our current standard to be 'pollution' compared to their perceived standard.

Whilst irritating, phrases such as 'like, you know' are valid inclusions to the English lexicon because they are uniform and understood by many. Even the more widespread usages of acronyms and common misspellings like - lol, teh and pwnage are valid due to their uniformity.

With the widespread and prolific usage of net/txt speech, the same absorbed media (movies, TV, music etc) released worldwide with less disparity in time exposure than ever before - the adoption rate of a new standard, regardless of origin, is unprecedented. Language evolution is normal. The speed of which it's happening is new.

While this flux is occurring, it feels as if we are de-evolving the English language, rather than evolving. Nevertheless, it's still evolution. However, acknowledging this fact and liking it are certainly not mutually exclusive.


Personally, my brain hurts often having to digest some of the crap I hear and read.

 

[geeve420]

I also think it is regional here the U.S. I am from Ohio, and now live in Oklahoma, My wife is from Texas. She makes fun of me all the time because I tend to substitute "sometime" for "one time".

"We should go do that one time"

That is how everyone from where I am from talks. It's just like the fact that I make fun of her for saying "y'all". In my opinion it is both a regional and generation thing, I know when I was a teenager my Mom couldn't understand a thing I was saying and forced me to speak as proper as I could while home. Every generation has morphed the language and that will continue for as long as we exist. Very few, if any of us could travel back in time to even the 1920's and be able to understand the people. Just the way it is I guess....

 

[spinifex]

If I recall correctly, cannot is used situations where you are unable to completely, as in, there is no way to can.

I cannot know who the guests are that are viewing this topic. Can not is when, under different circumstances, you can, like when someone can not speak correctly.

But it's really not here nor there, as my intended joke was received

If I recall correctly, cannot is used IN situations where you are unable to complete(ly), as in, there is no way to can.

I cannot know who the guests are that are viewing this topic. Can not is when, under different circumstances, you can, like when someone can not speak correctly.

But it's really neither here, nor there, as my intended joke was received.

Fixt it for u.

 

[spinifex]

That's why I have such a respect for my wife...I couldn't be a teacher in this country. I would probably slap those kids...lose my job and get thrown in jail within the first week

-DG

I always wanted to marry a teacher.

Reason??

If you do it wrong, she makes you do it over and over and over till you get it right. :devil2::roflmao:

 

[SledgeDG]

Good one, spinifex...I might just do it wrong on purpose then...that sure has all the makings for an entertaining afternoon.

And thanks for clearing up the cannot/can't relations.

-DG

 

[spinifex]

Good one, spinifex...I might just do it wrong on purpose then...that sure has all the makings for an entertaining afternoon.

And thanks for clearing up the cannot/can't relations.

-DG

Glad you enjoy being married to a teacher, Sledge.

Wasn't (hope i can use this) me that sorted the cannot/can not. Just fixed some missing words/spelling for someone who was fixing someone else's.

I love a good stir.

 

[bigmck]

I also think it is regional here the U.S. I am from Ohio, and now live in Oklahoma, My wife is from Texas. She makes fun of me all the time because I tend to substitute "sometime" for "one time".

"We should go do that one time"

That is how everyone from where I am from talks. It's just like the fact that I make fun of her for saying "y'all". In my opinion it is both a regional and generation thing, I know when I was a teenager my Mom couldn't understand a thing I was saying and forced me to speak as proper as I could while home. Every generation has morphed the language and that will continue for as long as we exist. Very few, if any of us could travel back in time to even the 1920's and be able to understand the people. Just the way it is I guess....

I totally agree that people in different parts of the US speak diffently. People in the north say "youse guys" and in the south it is "Y'all". That is pefectly acceptable to me. It is just the insertion of unneeded words like, "I mean" and "you know" that drives me up the wall.