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Aylee -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 8:50:48 PM)


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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

That's cool!  Very rarely do I hear someone quote the character "Oddball", played by Donald Sutherland from the classic "Kelly's Heroes."


I loved him. I liked Sutherland's M*A*S*H character also.



Hillwilliam -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 8:53:15 PM)


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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

That's cool!  Very rarely do I hear someone quote the character "Oddball", played by Donald Sutherland from the classic "Kelly's Heroes."



One of My favorite movie quotes of all time.

"Im drinking my wine and eating my cheese and my bread"



Aylee -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 9:01:58 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam


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ORIGINAL: lockedaway

That's cool!  Very rarely do I hear someone quote the character "Oddball", played by Donald Sutherland from the classic "Kelly's Heroes."



One of My favorite movie quotes of all time.

"Im drinking my wine and eating my cheese and my bread"


[8|] I'm drinking wine and eating cheese, and catching some rays, you know.[8|]



lockedaway -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 9:06:00 PM)

"Make them a deeeaal, Kelly...maybe they're Republicans!"


ah Yes...almost forgot "and my other dog goes woof, woof, woof!"



myotherself -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 11:22:02 PM)

Ah Peon, you have rattled my cage now! I teach in a secondary school, and my pet hates are:

1. Use of the phrase "Know what I mean?"....for example "He was, like, going to my house and, like, turns up with his mate Barry and says, like, "You know Bazza, right?" and I'm like "who's Bazza?" and he's like "me mate Bazza" and I'm like going mental cos me dad says I'm not like allowed to bring strange boys home when he's out, know what I mean?"

2. Related to this is the word 'goes'. It's not GOES, it's SAID!!!! "He goes I'm dead clever". He goes WHERE?? No, you silly cow, he SAID you're dead clever! And he's wrong.

3. That irritating questioning intonation in which teenage girls pretend they're some kind of hybrid californian beach bunny/australian beach bunny and every sentence ends with a rising inflection. So a simple sentence such as "the answer is 2a Miss" turns into "the answer is 2a, Miss?". Bloody annoying.

My final peeve is why I teach older kids not the little ones. I went to the primary class (kids 5 and 6 years old) and I swear the sleeves on my jacket where twice as wide as when I went in with little kids tugging at them and saying "Miss Miss Miss Miss MISSMISSMISSMISSMISSSSSSS!!!!!!"

*shudders*



GreedyTop -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/9/2011 11:25:58 PM)

GAH!! My late Grandfather used to get irked by the "you know what I mean?" and "goes" things too... sadly I am still often guilty of it (product of my school peers, I suppose).

Another that drove him crazy was "there was this _____" : he's say "THIS what?"




sirsholly -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/10/2011 5:26:16 AM)

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I started dozing in the sun. It began to sound like a duckpond.
<---thinks Peon is a quack



playfulotter -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/10/2011 3:55:57 PM)

I am sure I used the "like" word too many times as a teenager growing up in Southern California but not as much as those over the hill in the valley did ("the valls" as we called them in High School)...I think it is used more often as they are still forming their vocabulary, and need a place marker in a way when words are not coming to you readily..... I think using the word "get" like peonforher did is more of just a normal American way of talking....I use both "get" and "have" interchangeably so I don't see that as a big one for me at least.



Daddysredhead -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/10/2011 4:06:30 PM)

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ORIGINAL: playfulotter

I think using the word "get" like peonforher did is more of just a normal American way of talking....I use both "get" and "have" interchangeably so I don't see that as a big one for me at least.


I totally agree. I say it all the time, doesn't seem to bother anyone I know.



CreepyStalker -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/10/2011 5:16:40 PM)

It's most annoying when combined with misuse of 'literally'.

"I like literally pissed myself laughing"

How are you supposed to work out from that whether or not you need to fetch a mop?



GreedyTop -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/10/2011 10:43:44 PM)

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ORIGINAL: playfulotter

I am sure I used the "like" word too many times as a teenager growing up in Southern California but not as much as those over the hill in the valley did ("the valls" as we called them in High School)...I think it is used more often as they are still forming their vocabulary, and need a place marker in a way when words are not coming to you readily..... I think using the word "get" like peonforher did is more of just a normal American way of talking....I use both "get" and "have" interchangeably so I don't see that as a big one for me at least.


SGV?



stellauk -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 1:33:09 AM)

I have to laugh as I live in London, which seems to be one of the few cities in the world where you get literally millions of people together all having great difficulties communicating in English. This applies just as much it seems to the natives as the foreigners.

We don't only have 'like', we also have 'yo' (not sure whether this is a greeting or a way of getting someone's attention) and 'my gawd' and we also seem to be getting into the American meaning of 'guy', as in 'you guys' - not gender specific.

Oh and the other one - 'dude'. This seems to be replacing 'bloke', 'fella' and even 'geezer'.

But it's not so much the teenagers that irritate me so much.. I was a teenager once (well, in some respects I still am) but it's the office workers, people who I feel should know better.

I wouldn't mind so much, but the mobile phone forces you to listen to this crap. Some evenings I can get on a bus and be one of only two or three people on a full lower deck who isn't talking to someone on a mobile phone.

And yes, Bridget Jones lives on.. and she has a Blackberry.. It's phrases like..

'at this moment in time'

'with all due respect'

'absolutely'

'twenty four seven'

'fairly unique'

'I personally'

I'm sure there's many more of these annoying phrases. Whatever happened to speaking properly?



SexyBossyBBW -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 1:35:46 AM)

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
You don't get this in the USA? I thought English girls copied it from their American counterparts. This unbelievably annoying thing of using the word 'like' every other word. It irritates the tits off me.

I was sitting in a cafe today, trying to reading my paper, minding my own business and hoping that everyone else would do likewise. I was surrounded by teenaged girls, wittering away on the tables around me. Jesus. They can't squeeze out a sentence without using the word 'like' at least three times.

I started dozing in the sun. It began to sound like a duckpond.
Are you a little irritable (or more easily irritated) these days in general?! They were minding their own business as well, I imagine.
You're going to look strange without tits though, even though they're small. [8D]

I have my cranky moments too, where I'm annoyed by other peoples' normal/happy moments. Mine, was/is hearing the word "conversate." M



sunshinemiss -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 1:46:20 AM)


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ORIGINAL: playfulotter

 I think using the word "get" like peonforher did is more of just a normal American way of talking....I use both "get" and "have" interchangeably so I don't see that as a big one for me at least.


Get is the MOST DIFFICULT word to teach. it has SOoooooo many meanings.

to have
to pay
to become
to convince
to understand
to arrive
to receive
to catch
to prepare
to create
to be overcome with emotion
to memorize
to take

and then as a noun:

a divorce


Let's not even start with phrasal verbs! Ack!



stellauk -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 3:07:44 AM)


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ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss

Get is the MOST DIFFICULT word to teach.



This is also what I believed until a Canadian teacher convinced me otherwise.

We were trying to solve one of the major bugbears of teaching English as a second language - teaching a foreign student the difference between 'have' and 'have got'. Seriously, if anyone is a language teacher this specific problem costs you sleep and time trying to think up ways how to teach it in a way that students will 'get' it (yes, I know, please don't shoot me).

Get is one of those 'psychology' words, like do, make, take, and have. Native speakers of English use all these words to indicate what they feel and think about a given activity.

For example consider the difference in feeling and implication between 'make love' and 'have sex'. Similarly there's a difference between 'taking a shower' and 'having a shower'.

Now 'get' implies a choice, an intention, determination, something you obtain, or something that happens as a result of a choice or a decision.. Literally 'to go' after something.

get married
get divorced
get a pizza
get the beers in

Consider that to 'get caught' you have made a choice to do something that you're not supposed to be doing, and to 'get wet' is to put yourself in a position where you become exposed to water. For example, going out in the rain and choosing not to take an umbrella.

This is the only difference, and its a negligible one, and if you ask fifty different native speakers of English you're going to get at least a dozen different opinions. English is a universal language, it's non-standard, even in the countries where it is the native language where you will always find at least two standards, if not more.

This is why when a native speaker of English opens their mouth and speaks you can generally tell where they come from or where they have spent a major part of their lives, their education, their social class, their occupational field, and so much more, all coded in the way they speak the language.

Personally I found the biggest difficulty was teaching students how spelling and pronunciation worked together. I mean you have 'cough', then you have 'bough', and then you have 'enough', and then 'through', and then 'thought'.

And usually by then you have a group of confused students looking at you as if you've just arrived from the planet Mars.



sunshinemiss -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 6:36:48 AM)

OH Stella - my favorites are - comb, bomb and tomb. We are on the same wavelength, baby!



ResidentSadist -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 10:23:49 AM)

Like, ya' know . . . when I first read this, I thought it was like, well, like, about liking teenage girls.  I was like wow, this isn't at all like I thought it was gonna' be.  Like, ya' know what I mean?  



DanaYielding -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 10:38:10 AM)

And what about ....."ya know what i'm sayin'



myotherself -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 12:08:24 PM)

the one that had me spitting feathers today was...

"I'm giving it 110% effort"

So suddenly you're giving it every last gram of effort and an extra 10% you've conjured up out of thin air, like some kind of half-witted Harry Potter wannabe?

Give it 100% - that's all we want! That's all we care about!

*hot cross bunny - mathematician and pedant*



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: Like, teenaged girls (4/11/2011 6:38:41 PM)

You've missed Jerry Springer or Maury Povich then where the women who are trying to find "baby daddy" swear a million percent that *he's* the one.  And turns out he's not.  Nor are the other 8 or 15 who've been tested.  [:D]



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