Death of a language

Who teached you how to spoke?

“I was, like, wow.”

Personally, I’m, like, wow, about how many grown adults talk like this. It drives me nuts.

Admittedly, in 2010 in Toronto’s streets no one would expect to hear “It was as though I had been completely overwhelmed by surprise“. But what’s wrong with “It was amazing / incredible / shocking”? At least that’s more articulate, a real sentence, and sounds like the utterer may  at least have completed Grade 12.

Perhaps it’s a sign of older age, mourning the death of engaging conservation only to find it supplanted by the birth of sound bites, acronyms and emoticons, and the inability to articulate reactions and feelings. Perhaps only a curmudgeon – or the word police – would pounce on incorrect use of simile, and protest the creation of new so-called ‘language’.

But,  “I was, like, ...”? Really it has to go!

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