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who's a European? :wink:

moi

cool as, for a minute there I thought CS was calling me one LOL

Thankfully, this dumb American knows the difference between Europe and New Zealand.

haha... man isn't the stereotype for us clever... and witty... and always drunk, red hair and short...

LOL yeah it is....but the 'drunk' thing is debateable well at least among my lot of friends anyway!

from my perspective the drunk one is the one that describes us best...
here is me two years ago... i know ladies.. hot..

geeez how old were you 12????

no 15... haha...

The irish....I'm not surprised.

Like, um, can we like get back to the topic now or whatever? "Like" is very annoying, and as a young Californian, let me tell you how difficult it can be to avoid letting it slip in when you let your guard down.

One of my close friends is an absolutely gifted writer, loves English, and got a full scholarship to a very good private college as an English major. However, she slipped while talking with me in a clothing store and said, "I think that shirt's, like, really cute." A woman standing nearby actually had the nerve to interject into our conversation, "Is the shirt cute, or LIKE cute?"

The point of the story is, leave us alone! We can't help it sometimes, all right!! Sob!

I can understand it being hard to control, especially since you hear it so much on these ridiculous shows like Laguna Beach.

why is everyone talking about this Laguna Beach thing? what the hell is it? Is there seriously a tv show I haven't heard of?

Yeah, Laguna Beach is on MTV and you aren't missing a thing.

ech, that explains it. I don't even pause on MTV when I flip through the channels.

I don't either. I think if I did I would have a siezure or something like that.

well I finaly saw the 'Laguna Beach' programme on TV....what a load of crap, the cameras follow a group of young people around and every second word is "like"....when I use the word 'Like', it is not very often, however this word manages to slip into a sentence every now and again.

My most common word I tend to use more frequently is... "Yeah" in place of Umm and I notice I will subconciously stick it on the end of a sentence or even the beginning of a sentence while conversing with others!
eg... "Yeah how are you today" "yeah Im good" "yeah see you"
and this one cracks me up..."nup yeah"

nup yeah has to be my favorite

There's nothing at all wrong with using 'like' in the fashion you've mentioned. Being a gifted writer has nothing, that's ZERO, to do with how people speak.

These place holders like 'like' are no different than the placeholders adults use in their language. You'll naturally grow out of using 'like' and then you'll replace it with another placeholder.

Talking about placeholders, how about public speakers using 'umm'