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Cabbie21 Mon 17-Aug-26 11:03:10

Yesterday I met my grandson’s girlfriend. A nice girl, with interesting things to say, but every sentence was peppered with “ I’m like”.
She is a highly intelligent girl, who did exceptionally well well in her GCSEs last year, now about to enter Year 13. Grandson has just completed his A levels with high grades.
Why can’t she speak properly?
Similarly, one of our successful GB athletes, in a tv interview, peppered every sentence with several “I’m like”….I thought she was perhaps a bear of very little brain, but that is not true of my grandson's girlfriend.
Maybe I should have put this in pedants’ corner, but I don’t think I am being pedantic. Just old fashioned??

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Magenta8 Mon 17-Aug-26 11:21:40

Verbal ticks are very annoying and also very difficult to eradicate. Often they become worse when you are in a stressful situation like meeting your boyfriend's grandparent.

I know someone in their 70s, who incidentally has an MA from Oxford, who litters their conversation with "sort of" so I don't think it is a sign of lack of intelligence nor is it a generational thing.

Focus on the fact that she is a nice girl and she has interesting things to say.

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AGAA4 Mon 17-Aug-26 11:41:25

This could just be nervousness and will disappear or lessen as you get to know her.
Just try to ignore it but I know it can be irritating.

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