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re: Daughter overuses the word "like"
Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:46 pm to TheGeauxt9
Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:46 pm to TheGeauxt9
quote:FIFY in fact it's not only teenage girls but adults of both sexes around the world when speaking English whether it's their mother tongue or not.
Her and every other teenage daughter that speaks English around the World, just their vernacular
It started to get really bad in the late 90s and I fought hard to stop it but I had no idea that it would get much worse and become one of our worst exports.
This post was edited on 12/13/25 at 2:48 pm
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Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:51 pm to jmarto1
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As an employer of mainly 18-23 year old women
Pics?
Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:55 pm to Ricardo
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ummm
In college speech class any umm was a letter grade drop in our weekly presentation. I cringe when an adult uses this in a business setting.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:57 pm to Strannix
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n college speech class any umm was a letter grade drop in our weekly presentation. I cringe when an adult uses this in a business setting.
Umm has a place
Not in presentations though
Posted on 12/13/25 at 2:58 pm to sleepytime
Be thankful if she isn't saying that stupid 6-7 shite. Take that as a win and move on.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:12 pm to sleepytime
My college daughter uses the word lowkey so much I’ve lost track. It’s annoying
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:15 pm to sleepytime
She’ll like grow out of it bruh
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:19 pm to sleepytime
Had a daughter and nieces at that age over using like.
If she said it was like 9:00, I would say 9:15?
If she said there were like 10 people there, I would say 9?
She grew weary and eventually quit saying it in front of me.
If she said it was like 9:00, I would say 9:15?
If she said there were like 10 people there, I would say 9?
She grew weary and eventually quit saying it in front of me.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:21 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:jmarto keeps his pimp hand skrong
I always heard that strip club managers can dock their girls' pay if they're late or miss a shift without technically violating any employment laws. How do you do it at your club?
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:23 pm to ob1pimpbobi
quote:Gonna need pics of her to guide us in our lowkey advice to you on a path forward.
My college daughter uses the word lowkey so much I’ve lost track.
TIA
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:26 pm to sleepytime
Like Totally!
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:27 pm to sleepytime
I've had it with the "Super" bullshite, super this super that.
Can anyone be different anymore?
Can anyone be different anymore?
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:30 pm to sleepytime
Might try recording her and then ask if that's how she really wanted to sound.
My dad did that to slow me down. I was a non-stop full steam ahead and it helped.
My dad did that to slow me down. I was a non-stop full steam ahead and it helped.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:34 pm to sleepytime
She will swap to UMMM when she's in college. Just saying.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:37 pm to sleepytime
“Like” to millennials is the same as “you know” to boomers.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:44 pm to sleepytime
I had a teacher in 2nd grade that would interrupt and ask”like what?” every time one of us of said “like”…. Same with “so” and “um”. Other students started doing the same and it became a game. Within 2 weeks the class was cured of filler words and we were all conscious and ridded of the dreaded like, um and so disease.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 3:47 pm to sleepytime
When I was in middle school we had an English teacher that gave us a weekly assignment where we had to get in front of the class and talk about whatever the assignment was and if you said like... "its like when" "its like how".. We would have to start over from the point we were on. In the beginning of the year everyone would have to start over 3 or 4 times, it was frustrating. It was everyone's least favorite class.. By the end of the year the assignments wasn't hard at all and you didn't worry about saying "like" because some shite is this or that, its not like anything.
Try that with her. Ask her to try saying some shite without saying like. Either reward or punish in some way every time she does it.
Give her $100 in $5s. But tell her you will do an assignment where every time she messes up she has to pay you $5. Do it over a few months and she will get better with not saying.
Try that with her. Ask her to try saying some shite without saying like. Either reward or punish in some way every time she does it.
Give her $100 in $5s. But tell her you will do an assignment where every time she messes up she has to pay you $5. Do it over a few months and she will get better with not saying.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:10 pm to sleepytime
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My teenage daughter uses the word "like" multiple times in every sentence and it's driving me bonkers. I've tactfully brought it to her attention several times, worked with her to slow things down but it seems as if it's just getting worse, akin to a Tourette's tick. It's so bad that it's hard to follow along with what she's saying. Is there anything that can be done?
I broke my Niece of that by pulling the the old "Say like again monkey fighter" thing on her, she looked at me like grew another head but she stopped that, plus her Dad and my Dad and me all high fived and shite
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:16 pm to sleepytime
There's a reason fathers used to offer livestock as a dowry to get someone to marry their daughters
Posted on 12/13/25 at 4:23 pm to sleepytime
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My teenage daughter uses the word "like" multiple times in every sentence and it's driving me bonkers. I've tactfully brought it to her attention several times, worked with her to slow things down but it seems as if it's just getting worse, akin to a Tourette's tick. It's so bad that it's hard to follow along with what she's saying. Is there anything that can be done?
A nervous coping system could be the blame and making the remedy more challenging.
Typically vocabulary and speaking style is strongly influenced by the parents. The number of words children use in their working vocab comes from home. Some of how kids talk through development is mimicking their peer groups.
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