Now, these are normal words granted... but I (being from SoCal) use these words too damn much and just out of context. See? Didn't need to use that just. That sentence would have been just fine without. Like, I use as a qualifier all the time, like when I tell a story or when I need a second to think about what I'll say next. So, like, these things drive me nuts when I hear anyone else say them. But I try and just let it go. Like, you know how some people say "you know?" a lot? I'm not terribly bothered by that. I just think, "ok, they're rhetorically asking my opinion... so, do I know?"
It's just a pet peeve and something I'd like to cut back on. I just wish I could go a whole day without using an unnecessarily "just" or "like". Like, you know? I think what I just hate the most out of all this is that one of the dictionary approved uses of "like" is as an interjection, so just how I'm using it. BUT IT SOUNDS STUPID AND MAKES ME SOUND STUPID!!! So fuck you Merriam Webster, that's stupid. Take it out.
I actually thought I'd kicked the "like" habit about 10 years ago. Whenever I used it out of context, my dad would interject (read: interrupt) and say back to me: "bears a verisimilitude" which was his version of what the dictionary would define like as. It so annoyed me, those interruptions, that I would just think about what I was going to say more and eventually excised it from my sentences.
But like all bad habits, she's a bitch to break and is like, back.
Two things here people: I defy you to find 2 uses of "like" or "just" in this blog that are in context and appropriate for the sentence. I know I used one appropriately.
Secondly, anyone else actually have peccadilloes like this or other verbal pet peeves?
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