YA KNOW?

No I don't know... guess you had to be there. Ya Know?

I guess . . .

Anyway, i'm going to find all of these people . . .




. . . and kill them.

The rising inflection at the end of the sentence used to be (still is?) called girl-speak when you go to counselling training programs.

Supposed to be some kind of indicator of a lack of confidence in what one is saying. Hate it.

I work very hard to not have it be part of my speech pattern.*

Unless I'm joking around.

Ya know.





* which sometimes leads to interesting comments from people about how I don't speak like a woman.

im guessing that might be kinda hard ya know?

I mean there are alot of them out there ya know, and they all ban together in secret places ya know?

kinda hard to get into i hear too ya know?

Well, that's now two people on my list.

Lotsa people hate it, ya know.

They've p.c'd it into "up-talk" now.

mmmmmmmmuch better

Fascinatin' . . .

It ain't just Oz, though . . . i've heard it for dog's ages in the New Nited States . . .

Set, you are a man after my own heart. I hate the way that people fill in the blanks with irelevant or illogical words.

One other thing that is totally alien to me at the moment, is the way that people hold conversations by means of re-enacting little stage plays. These little plays nearly always use the repeated, but totally unneccesary word "like" on frequent occasions. These conversations are usually shouted into a mobile phone and inevitably take place in a crowded train or bus.

Example...this is how the conversation would have gone in the past.

"I was speaking to Sharon the other day, and she said that she searched everywhere for a pair of shoes, and kept being told that they didn't stock size four's any more"

Now, today the same snippet of information would come out like this...

"I saw Sharon the other day, and said, like "Where are your new shoes that you were going to get?", and she was like "Whoa! Don't talk to me about shoes!", and I was like "OH - MY - GOD! Don't tell me you had a problem", and she was like " UH - HUH YEAH!", and I was like "What happened then?", and she was like "I went into this shop, right, and asked for those new style black ones, right, and the woman said "What size do you want?", and I was like "Size four", and she was like "Size Four? I don't think we stock size four" so she went to the manager and she was like "Do we stock size four?" and the manager was like "No Way! Size four are WELL out of fashion", so Sharon said "What other shop sells size four?" and the manager was like "Nobody stocks size four any more".


It is no wonder that mobile phone companies are making so much profit. These semi literate youngsters cannot communicate properly.

The blame, of course, comes firmly down on the awful Jerry Springer, and the dumbing down craze that he started. This country used to be able to communicate properly before he hit the airwaves. I watched two minutes of his show once, and will never watch it again. I would rather rent my bottom to an internet downloader.

So, like . . . i totally agree, Dude.

(I consider these instances of oral diorrhea to have been spawned by Dude speak, ya know?)

Those would be the Chavs, n'est-ce pas?

Not necessarily, Set. Most of the young from about 10 to 20 speak like this when they are in their peer groups.
This style of talk is the latest fashion, which I hope will soon disappear.

The Aussie "up talk" was brought about by Australian soaps bombarding us in the 80's and 90's, and that seems to have passed now, as far as I can tell. Mind you, the "up talk" was, in comparison to the tripe that is being spouted today, quite endearing. At least it made everything sound positive, as opposed to todays overly theatrical craze.

LIke, I don't think this kind of talk will, like, ever go away. I mean, seriously, I think it's like, here to stay, ya know? But we do, like, grow out of it or something because I like, don't do it anymore and I like, used to say "like" more than I'd have liked to, ya know?

so long as you walk like one..

we dont ya know so much over here ya know, but the rising inflection at the end of the sentence is very irritating, and justifies mass murder imo.

My walk is pure Chantilly Lace [thanks, Big Bopper]

I agree completely Steve . . . and now there are three on my list . . . Bella . . .

So like, i just heard another one of these jokers, on the radio? And, she was like, saying "Goddess knows" all the time? When someone else (if they were mentally handicapped) would have been saying God knows?


Where's that damned scatter gun ?

dlowan's on the radio [180 hits on Goddess and dlowan at A2K]

oh that is so funny Goddess knows...

pretentious moi?

Chantilly Lace
And a pretty face
And a pony tail
Ahangin' down
A wiggle in the walk
And a giggle in the talk
Makes the world go round and round
There ain't nothin' in the world
Like a big-eyed girl
To make me feel so funny
Make me spend my money
Make me feel real loose
Like a long-necked goose
OH BABY, that's a-what i like ! ! !

J. T. Richardson--the Big Bopper