Why Do Girls Talk Like This These Days?

[Cyrus]

After hitting the gym today, I went to buy two chicken sandwiches to eat. As I am siting there there are some guys and girls sitting behind me, and another table of girls sitting to my far left. I am eating, minding my own business, until the girls behind me start laughing loudly. "Like omg, you know" "Its like, like like" Then I heard one of the girls sitting to my far left say "Omg that's so funny". I am thinking to myself, "yeah, its so damn funny you forgot to laugh, idiot." Why do girls talk like this these days? Its like, so totally annoying, and like, makes me like, want to smack them, for you know, omg that's so funny, talking like a dumbas$. Just shut up and eat if you have nothing to say. I've noticed a LOT of girls talking like this lately.

/rant.

Seriously, what gives?

Side- Those buddist monks were back on campus and made another mandala, it was quite nice.

Ive also noticed undergrads constantly complaining about work and 'the teacher has a phd, and thinks we have one too when he teaches'. Wow, you have to do work, I feel so sorry for you. One guy was doing vibrations and said, 'what is an equation of motion, I don't understand what its asking!" I didnt have the balls to tell him to drop out of engineering because there is no hope for him in life.

 

[Evo]

Dude! OMG! Like, uhm, what's, you know, your problem with, like, people talking?

 

[chroot]

Cyrus,

You need to find something more important to worry about.

- Warren

 

[cristo]

Did they say "oh my god" or did they actually say "omg"? I hate hate HATE the latter! Luckily, not many people say it over here, but I know from my brief trips to the US that it really annoys me. Needless to say, people will start talking like that over here since it's undoubtedly language used on that "real life" OC (or whatever it's called).

 

[Cyrus]

Cyrus,

You need to find something more important to worry about.

- Warren

Its true I do, but its like OMG! Do you see my point, these people are in college. They should know how to SPEAK when they open their mouth.

 

[moe darklight]

O

MY

GAWD

Becky look at

her

buttMe and my friend Leah talk like that when we meet girls who talk like that. It's funny how they don't notice you're, like, totally making fun of them. It's too fun. One time I couldn't keep it in and started laughing. TOTALLY blew my cover, like O-M-G, seeeoow awk-werrd.

 

[jim mcnamara]

It's age-related cultural "entree" - for certain cliques. High schoolers are far and away the worst for this. If you haven't noticed, mid-teens wear uniforms, so you can identify what group (emo, skaters, etc) they think they fit into, kinda like reading all the band stickers on a rear window of an older fading goth kid's car.

You'll get the excess partitive blues from listening certain cliques. The barbie set with the beads on the cell phones are going to make you the sickest the quickest.

YMMV.

PS it all goes away after a few years in the Walmart job or in jail.

 

[chroot]

PS it all goes away after a few years in the Walmart job or in jail.

That may well be the single most cynical statement I have ever read. Bravo!

- Warren

 

[moe darklight]

[...]

that was too funny. I'm at work here! I'm supposed to look all seriouslike in front of the computor.

 

[Moonbear]

OMG! Cyrus, isn't it like so obvious? *shakes head to toss blonde hair* I like can't believe you so don't get it.

What I don't get is like, these guys, you know, and they go to the gym and are all like "I'm so hot," you know, and like then they go to some fast food place and like order TWO sandwiches. It's like, how do they eat so much? You know?



Though, yes, I do see far too much whining about having to actually do work in college. I'm really unsympathetic. One of my friends started med school this year (not here), and was asking me if the med students here are as whiny as the ones where she is. She said they were all complaining they don't get enough time for each station on the gross lab practical...I just love that they have someone like her in their class...her response to them is, "Get over it, if you know the answer, it's plenty of time. When you're in the ER and someone needs to be treated, you're not going to be able to say, 'It's not fair, I need more time to think.'" I wish I had a student in the class I'm teaching to smack around their classmates like that.

 

[lisab]

WATCH OUT!

This sort of talking is soooo adicting. If you start to mock them YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STOP.

Another way young people (usually girls) talk that drives me up a wall: "up-talk." That's when every sentence goes up at the end? Like a question but it's not? And when they talk that way? They can't understand? Why no one takes them seriously?

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_701711354/uptalk.html

 

[chroot]

I guess if you down-talk you sound like you're going to commit suicide. I'm trying it now and it sounds like I'm frighteningly depressed.

- Warren

 

[Cyrus]

I actually counted the number of times a girl sitting next to me used the word 'like' in her conversation, I stopped counting after getting up to 30 in under 10 mins. Becuase you know, it was like, so funny, omg.

 

[JasonRox]

People say... "That's hilarious."... while laughing too.

Completely normal. Guys and girls do it.

Note: I find guys at prone to be like plugs than girls.

 

[Cyrus]

Yeah, while laughing.

 

[russ_watters]

Its true I do, but its like OMG! Do you see my point, these people are in college. They should know how to SPEAK when they open their mouth.

Embrace it - it's what makes a capitalist economy work. You'll never need to worry about a uniformly high level of competition for good jobs with no one left to do the crappy jobs as long as such people exist. There will always be plenty of applicants for bubbly, college educated, empty-headed WalMart greeter positions.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Yea bro, i agree with chroot you are looking too much into it. Slang is very common.

You see when I'm in:
Spain: I speak like a spanish, i use their expressions. "¡Tiio!" "Pues hombre"
Argentina: i speak like an argentinian, i use their expressions. "¡¡Venite!" "Boludo"
Mexico: i speak like a dominican, i hate their expressions.

so, yeah slang is ok and should not be a focus of hate, but laughter, fun, and others alike.

 

[FredGarvin]

O

MY

GAWD

Becky look at

her

butt

I just about spit my food out when I saw that. Damn that's funny.

 

[Cyrus]

Yea bro, i agree with chroot you are looking too much into it. Slang is very common.

You see when I'm in:
Spain: I speak like a spanish, i use their expressions. "¡Tiio!" "Pues hombre"
Argentina: i speak like an argentinian, i use their expressions. "¡¡Venite!" "Boludo"
Mexico: i speak like a dominican, i hate their expressions.

so, yeah slang is ok and should not be a focus of hate, but laughter, fun, and others alike.

Thats not slang. Slang is replacing words with other words. This is simply inserting the word like inside a normal sentence.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Really? i thought that was the equivalent of american slang. Hahah funny, i thought all american girls spoke like that.

 

[moose]

I actually counted the number of times a girl sitting next to me used the word 'like' in her conversation, I stopped counting after getting up to 30 in under 10 mins. Becuase you know, it was like, so funny, omg.

That actually happens with just about anyone talking... The word like is used all the time. It's just more noticeable when a ditsy girl says it.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Cyrus, you must have like totally hated L.A. What you are describing sounds like Val-speak (as in Valley Girl).

I've been told that the origin of Val-speak is actually surf lingo. The Valley kids picked it up on trips to the beach and then carried it back with them to b*tchin' Encino or like wherever, I'm so sure.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I remember seeing this in the theater. Nick Cage was so cute in this movie.

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[hypatia]

I really only hear the OMG in very young teens here{13-16}, then they seem to out grow it. Which is fine by me.

 

[turbo]

I'm a big Zappa fan and have the CD that has "Valley Girl" on it, featuring his daughter Moon Unit camping the Val Girl style big-time. Barf me out! Gag me with a spoon! I am so SUUUURE!

Somehow, this has become popular among young women all over the country, along with the (used to be primarily) Southern peculiarity of dragging out the last syllable of every sentence with a rising pitch so that statements come out sounding like questions.

 

[Moonbear]

"like" is just a filler word, like "ah" or "um."

 

[edward]

According to an article in my local newspaper the younger generation is also spewing out the F word in public along with all of the other semi Valley girl speak. I've noticed it increasingly in the past several years.

So like uh you know ,what the F** am I supposed to say to them when I take my six year old grandson to a movie and they are spewing out this garbage?

It may be just a filler word too, but when it replaces proper language it sounds just plain ignorant.

 

[Cyrus]

Well, its not like there in COLLEGE.

 

[jhicks]

I think the most annoying thing about the phenomenon is the fake lisp many girls add to their voices these days. The only culture I know of that intentionally adds a lisp are the spaniards, which supposedly was borne out of veneration for some long-dead king with a lisp.

 

[Moonbear]

Well, its not like there in COLLEGE.

Nope, not like they're in college either.

 

[mjolnir80]

lol i hate it when people talk like this with every ounce of enthusiasm that they can muster

 

[turbo]

Nope, not like they're in college either.

Thanks, Moonie! I have seen similar "corrections" that would have read "it's not like their in college". Little things like the misuse of "its" (possessive) and "it's" (contraction of it is) drive me nuts, and it is (or "it's") getting worse with every passing year. It seems as if large segments of the US population are drifting into functional illiteracy and that is disturbing.

 

[lisab]

My favorite: its'.

Oh, I don't see it very often but when I do...it makes my day.

 

[binzing]

A good friend of mine, (previously mentioned in "Need Help" thread) has taken a vow to stop using like except in its proper context. I haven't actually noticed her misuse it much/ if ever, but its a good thing to get out of saying.

 

[BobG]

Thanks, Moonie! I have seen similar "corrections" that would have read "it's not like their in college". Little things like the misuse of "its" (possessive) and "it's" (contraction of it is) drive me nuts, and it is (or "it's") getting worse with every passing year. It seems as if large segments of the US population are drifting into functional illiteracy and that is disturbing.

Oh! (as in Oh-some, dude!) Like, 12-gauge double bore!

Like, get over it. Speleeng will go extinct by 2022 anyway.

It'll be extinct about 10 years later than "Thank You" and about 15 years before "Sorry". And about 3 years after libraries go extinct.

Extinction Timeline

Hmm, "Rocky" films won't go extinct until 2035. I guess Sylvester Stallone won't be retiring anytime soon. Of course, since retirement will be extinct by 2016, I guess that's a given.

 

[Math Jeans]

I just about spit my food out when I saw that. Damn that's funny.

Its from the beginning of a song.

 

[FredGarvin]

Its from the beginning of a song.

Yeah. I know. I just forgot about that intro which is why it was funny to me.

 

[Cyrus]

Nope, not like they're in college either.

Dammmit! (Actually, I am terrible at spelling, so I like it when people fix my posts so I stop doing it).

Me fail anglish, that's un-possible!


BTW, two girls were talking in the hallway outside my office today, and it was like, you know, omg, like so totally funny. Yeah totally, omg.

 

[ShawnD]

Me and my friend Leah talk like that when we meet girls who talk like that. It's funny how they don't notice you're, like, totally making fun of them.

This one time I was on and indian reserve and..

 

[edward]

Nope, not like they're in college either.

Unfortunately many of those 12 year old pseudo valley talk cursers will be in college in a few years.

It will be interesting when the txt msg lingo starts showing up in term papers.

 

[Moonbear]

It will be interesting when the txt msg lingo starts showing up in term papers.

Well, at least by then, all exams and grading will be done online, so we won't have to get writer's cramp and cover the pages in red ink to grade them.

 

[SticksandStones]

Langauge really isn't that sacred guys, who really cares?

I can think of a lot of things that are far more important in life than whether or not a word is misused.

 

[edward]

Langauge really isn't that sacred guys, who really cares?

I can think of a lot of things that are far more important in life than whether or not a word is misused.

While lying in his hospital bed SticksandsSones didn't mind when his doctor said: "OMG just give him something like maybe penicillin or something sort of Fing like it."

 

[turbo]

While lying in his hospital bed SticksandsSones didn't mind when his doctor said: "OMG just give him something like maybe penicillin or something sort of Fing like it."

Good shot, Edward. Imprecise use of language is tolerable when the offender is serving you French fries. It is not at all comforting to hear/read read mush coming from people in a position to really ruin your day. I cringe every time Bush says "nukular". I've got to assume that he's trying to impress crackers, because surely there are a least a couple of people in his administration that can pronounce the word correctly and have suggested that he do so, as well.

 

[moe darklight]

and because I just bought a new edition of Moby Dick, and it's all screwy:

hey I am ishmael, anyways, so a couple of yrs ago I had like no $$, and was also kinda bored, so i thought itd be awesome to go sailing in my boat around the world and stuff. plus its also good exersize and relaxing. when i get grumpy or sad or can't stnd ppl or whatever i usualy like to go sailing anyways so i was like whatever. like, if i feel like i want to shoot ppl instead of shooting ppl i go sailing, you no? my buddy james like to smoke a spliff to relax but i go sailing instead. most ppl like the sea so its no a big deal.

i was in this place called manhatoes 4 example there's lots of islands around it its pretty cool and there's also lots of tourist's, all the streets go to the sea and there's really big waves and ppl like to watch the sea and look at the big waves. [...]

 

[SticksandStones]

Good shot, Edward. Imprecise use of language is tolerable when the offender is serving you French fries. It is not at all comforting to hear/read read mush coming from people in a position to really ruin your day. I cringe every time Bush says "nukular". I've got to assume that he's trying to impress crackers, because surely there are a least a couple of people in his administration that can pronounce the word correctly and have suggested that he do so, as well.

I don't think George Bush is running around the mall disguised as a teenage girl though.
I'm just saying...there are more important things to worry about than if some random tool walking around misuses words or not.

 

[turbo]

I don't think George Bush is running around the mall disguised as a teenage girl though.
I'm just saying...there are more important things to worry about than if some random tool walking around misuses words or not.

My point was that if some "random tool" misuses words, we are at little risk, aside from the disappointment of realizing that our society is in decay. When someone running the most powerful country in the world has problems with the comprehension and use of words, there is a potential for some serious risk to all of us. His usage of "mission accomplished", "bring it on", etc, may have looked good to people impressed by bravado, but he has personally risked nothing (all his life!) while ignoring the sacrifices of many thousands of US military personnel.

We've got an idiot in the WH, who has survived not on his wits and talents, but on daddy's money and connections. I pray that the next president will be able to comprehend complex concepts, and will be able to articulate his/her policies in clear language that will resonate with the populace.

 

[lisab]

Langauge really isn't that sacred guys, who really cares?

I can think of a lot of things that are far more important in life than whether or not a word is misused.

Words will never hurt SticksandStones !

 

[binzing]

Adding to what SticksandStones said in post 42. This form of speaking is also the English language evolving.