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[crokett]

Another one is 'dude'. I've also heard 'radical' recently. As in "Like, dude! That new movie was radical! You should, um, like go see it!".

One I use is "those ones". I have no idea where I picked it up. As in "See these two stacks of 2x4s? Those ones go here and those ones go over there."

[Lee4847]

this thread is "all jacked up"??

[crokett]

this thread is "all jacked up"??

I've been known to say that. Along with fubar'ed. Also, broke instead of broken.

[cabinetman]

Everybody is a "man". "Man" this, "Man" that.

And then there is the answer that both agrees and disagrees..."yeah right".

From the overly educated rappers using that universal signifier..."yo".
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[cwithboat]

whatever....

[Pappy]

One I have noticed here is starting a sentence with "So". It seems to be more prevailant with the younger members.

My worst writing habit is using the Kiplinger stye, writing in partial sentences. Habit picked up writing fitness reports in the Marines.

[Larryl]

Now I'm so intimidated I'm afraid to open my mouth.

[sparkeyjames]

I do believe that this started out as a 'valley girl' term. See Frank Zappa with his daughter Moon Unit in a song titled Valley Girl. Later there was movie of the same name. Never saw it though.

[L. D. Jeffries]

By far the most annoying: "you know" somewhere in every sentence spoken.
Grrrrrrrrrrr!

[mschrank]

I do believe that this started out as a 'valley girl' term. See Frank Zappa with his daughter Moon Unit in a song titled Valley Girl. Later there was movie of the same name. Never saw it though.

Nope, it started before that. Like, if you really wanna see who used it first, watch an old episode of Scooby-Doo. Shaggy was like, the original stoner hipster.

The one that gets to me lately is the improper use of "literally." As in a teenage girl saying "Oh my God, I literally died"

[RAFlorida]

Y'all up tight, (Stevie Wonder);

Just be "Groovy", (Simon & Garfunkle), "You know what I mean?", (Lee Michaels. Y'all never know when you like may be "Knocking on Heaven's Door", (Bob Dylan).
What about, "I'm fixing to go to town."?

[germdoc]

My momma would always say, "Well, I'll swan." She didn't know what it meant, but "that's just what people say".

Later research by me seems to indicate that this may be a contraction of "I'll swear upon"...

http://blog.oup.com/2006/12/monthly_gleanin3/

Or whatever...

[phi1l]

My momma would always say, "Well, I'll swann." She didn't know what it meant, but "that's just what people say".

Later research by me seems to indicate that in Elizabethan times this was a contraction of "I'll swear upon"...

Or whatever...

Swans notably quite. Maybe it means that you are speechless.

[jking]

whatever....

talk to the hand...

[jking]

Nope, it started before that. Like, if you really wanna see who used it first, watch an old episode of Scooby-Doo. Shaggy was like, the original stoner hipster.

Why do you think they were always eating Scooby Snacks?