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Ladyazh

Ladyazh

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Yesterday before some award ceremony on TV:
'I kinda like her dress'
'I sorts think her skin is too ashy for the color'

What are these mutants?
Sorta like it means do not like it or like it?
Kinda ashy means not ashy at all or little ashy still?

How old these words and what do you think about using them?
I love 'awesome' but I hear it is overused but it is a good word!!! 'Kinda-sorta' are not good words but fun to say?

 
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Sorta and kinda are not words. They are actually two word phrases: sort of and kind of. Both of them mean 'partially', or 'to a point', but not totally.

I kind of like her dress ==> I partially like her dress.
I sorta of think her skin ... ==> I, to a point, think her skin ....

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They're kinda-sorta shortened versions of kind of and sort of.

Kinda.

Alan Bennett said:
I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.
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Nothing to be sorry for Ken, two people typing at the same time is a fact of Tek-Tips life.

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Doh!

English can be a very lovely language. But only if we actually use it!

*LIKE* is my pet hate at the moment. It's like annoying...

Wait - is it similar to annoying?? Is in IN FACT actually annoying???



Arggggg


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Hailing from the North East of England, I'd always thought that the addition of "like" unnecessarily to sentences was a Geordie affectation. It was quite odd to discover a couple of years ago that it's been taken up by some US people as part of the "Valley Girl" way of speaking.
 
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Words parasites do exist in every language and i do understand meaning of those, what I am fascinated about that fashion critics on TV using them like if they were sorta like me who kinda just like got here like few years ago and sorta learning still yet...
 
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Dagon said:
Hailing from the North East of England, I'd always thought that the addition of "like" unnecessarily to sentences was a Geordie affectation.
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Could very well be the source of this most-despised of verbal affectations, but one that surely comes from the east side of The Pond is the annoying addition of the phrase, "Soh-duv" ("Sort of").


Last week on a television interview, an otherwise lovely and distinguished-looking British celebrity lost all credibility (with at least me), by way-too liberally sprinkling "soh-duv" into her responses:
British Celeb said:
I soh-duv feel like approaching this in a soh-duv private way since it's soh-duv a private soh-duv mattah. My family has soh-duv asked me to keep a soh-duv low profile so as not to soh-duv embarrass them.
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It's soh-duv understandable since "soh-duv" and "like" are soh-duv similah.

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LOL, and most of the time it is said in that nasal type of fake voice right? Hillarious. How long is this dog out?
Is it 'new generation' kinda talk?
I wouldn't worry if it stopped at 16 but it doesn't, does it? Imagine 65 y/old interviewee (wow, I just outdone myself with this word haven't I?) who speaks about life well lived in sorta-kinda way...with tatooes all over wrinkles? Boy! Where are we going?
 
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==> Is it 'new generation' kinda talk?
I think we need to be careful between the spoken word and the written word. How words sound when spoken are often different than how they would appear in writing. KnowwhatImean?

No, it's not new generation kind of talk. The phrases 'kind of' and 'sort of' have been in use for several generations.

Now the valley girl 'like' is a different situation, and it's very annoying.

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There is another one that hacks me off btw.

It has appeared in several emails from colleagues recently, one example below

annoying email said:
I would of rung him
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of?? OF?? OF???


HAVE for pities sake....

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I think some of it sound stupid/unintelligent intentionally. Smart just isn't cool.

Or maybe I'll just blame it all on TV.

Or the Republicans

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willif

Using 'of' in the written sentence strikes me as the writer being too lazy to learn how to spell what he hears correctly.

If he would write, "I would've rung him" I would have no problem with the sentence. Writing it with 'of' SOUNDS the same but is definitely not correct since 'of' is never a verb particle and a verb particle is required here, even if it is only an abbreviation.


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I agree Mmerlinn.

I'm not English, and I grew up with more than one language, so why is it that I seem to have more interest in speaking English properly?

As they would say in Wenglish - makes me spit..



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Dagon mentions the North East of England's inhabitants prediliction to add like to the end of many expressions, so we would have 'That was canny like', canny being used in place of awesome in this case.

My understanding of Valley Girl speak (admittedly only from the Zappa song and the film Clueless) is that the like precedes the word as in 'like, awesome!' or similar.

Alan Bennett said:
I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.
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Whatevah!!


Drives me nuts

[blue] A perspective from the other side!![/blue]

Cheers
Scott
 
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Scott,

If that bothers you, what about the even shorter version, "what evs"?

*ducks for cover*

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Do Not Get Me Started!

The Worst for me is young white kids talkin' like dey is fom de streets o da Ghetto, dig? Nah wha' am sayin' Bro?

Speshly if dey dis dere muddahs an' that.

Chris

If yer see a Rook on 'is own, im's a Crow. If yer sees a flock o' Crows, them's Rooks - My Uncle Cecil

 
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So I said, like, get over it. He was so, like, uptight."
"Get out!"
"Yeah. And I was, like, whatever. He's just so, like, such a loser."

Actual conversation overheard between two 16 year-old girls at a local mall.

Susan
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison
 
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