Like, totally!

How funny is it, like, that every American girl cannot say, like, an entire sentence without the word "like"?

Like, when I start, like, listening to how many times a girl says "like" in her sentence, I begin, like, to ignore the actual message of what she's, like, trying to communicate, like!

Ok, so I was being sarcastic and poking fun at girls who do this. Even boys do this. But did I get my message across?

Today in my Anthropology 101 class, a girl said "like" every other word in her sch-peal about gender roles.. "Like gender roles are, like, culturally determined, but like, what if like it was more innate, like....like....like..." For me, the credibility of her idea plummeted drastically. Even the T.A. wasn't really following what she was saying since she asked, "I'm sorry, what are you arguing?" All I could think was that she could be equally just as distracted and in awe of this girl's use of the word "like."

An article from Vanity Fair talks about how women and men have used "you know" and "like" in their sentences as filler words to spice up an otherwise "lame sentence." I agree! V.F. critiques Caroline Kennedy for repeatedly using the phrase "you know" more than 200 times in one of her interviews with New York Daily News. When asked if the Bush tax cuts should be repealed, she responded:

“Well, you know, that’s something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed.”

It further goes on to say that in her attempts to become a senator, she reduced herself to middle-class and middle-age because her vocabulary lacked to represent her as a credible candidate for the Senate.

Moral of the story?
Get, like, a bigger vocabulary!