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GillieB Mon 30-Jul-12 12:19:34

New pet hate of the moment - medalling. Please, please, please can the commentators just say - "so and so has won a (hopefully!) gold medal.

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Barrow Mon 30-Jul-12 12:14:10

My pet two pet hates are "yeah" spoken like a question at the end of a sentence amd "you know" again spoken like a question - makes me want to give the speaker a good slap!!

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Maniac Mon 30-Jul-12 10:30:43

I so agree about excessive use of 'like'.I could scream.
Even worse is 'kind of like' or 'sort of like'
Did you see a recent Graham Norton programme when the
wonderful Miriam Margolis reprimanded a young pop star guest for inappropriate use of 'like'.A very hilarious interchange.
I've often thought that a fine for every time 'like' or 'kind of' was used could raise a lot of money on Red Nose Day.

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vampirequeen Sun 29-Jul-12 20:46:40

Can we add adverbs to like? Real is not an adverb. Really is an adverb. It seems that people just don't understand this. Rather than grate on me every time they say it I'd rather it was banned.

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Wheniwasyourage Sun 29-Jul-12 19:43:37

When I become world president, nobody under the age of 30 is going to be allowed to use the word "like" in any context at all, including that of affection. On a train the other day I couldn't help hearing the conversation of a couple of young women who were, apparently, about to go to university (and so one would assume that they had had some education aready), and it seemed as if every second word was "like". We all have verbal tics from time to time, but this one has been going on for years and doesn't seem to be dying out at all. Does anyone have any ideas about how we could persuade the young to stop wasting their breath in this way? Could we perhaps tax the use of the word? It might solve the recession.

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