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[Yoink]

It's hard not to do it a little bit. It is also hard to unintentionally do it to valley girl levels. You should be fine.

[timferius]

It's called a filler. I took a seminar on public speaking, almost everyone has a filler, like, uh, umm, tsk, etc. It's generally considered fine in personal conversation etc, but it is not great if you're public speaking, trying to build others confidence in you, etc. In those cases it can come across as being unprepared and unsure of your subject matter.

TL;DR Ok for day to day usage, not ok for business presentations.

[TempAcc]

Its pretty fine to use it. Hell, its even normalized in common speech by now, and its hard to abuse it enough to become a valley girl simulacrum. Its also a thing that affects languages other then english, soooo.

[timferius]

Full disclosure, I'm a terrible Umm-er. Once you start paying attention to peoples use of fillers you'll notice they're everywhere. Although, once you start to string them together, that's when it's time to get worried. "tsk, like, y'know, I totally thought that".

[Comrade P.]

I just stop talking when I need to rethink the rest of the sentence. At least I try to do that instead of making meaningless sounds to fill the pause.

[Reelya]

Like, is saying 'like', like it's a comma, like, considered a bad or, like, annoying thing to do in, like, English?
I, like, understand that people probably don't, like, exactly follow my posts with, like, bated breath, but has anybody ever, like, thought that I say 'like' too much?
Like, I get this is, like, slightly dumb to worry about stuff like this, but, like, help me out here.

Like FTFY

[i2amroy]

Like, is saying 'like', like it's a comma, like, considered a bad or, like, annoying thing to do in, like, English?
I, like, understand that people, like, probably don't, like, exactly follow my posts with, like, bated breath, but has anybody ever, like, thought that I, like, say 'like' too much?
Like, I get this is, like, slightly dumb to worry about, like, stuff like this, but, like, help me out here.

Like, FTFY

Like, FTFY, like, so you had, like, maximum like usage, like, yeah.

[Comrade P.]

Like, is saying 'like', like it's a comma, like, considered a bad or, like, annoying thing to do in, like, English?
I, like, understand that people, like, probably don't, like, exactly follow my posts with, like, bated breath, but has anybody ever, like, thought that I, like, say 'like' too much?
Like, I get this is, like, slightly dumb to worry about, like, stuff like this, but, like, help me out here.

Like, FTFY

Like, FTFY, like, so you had, like, maximum like usage, like, yeah.

You people are approaching Valley Girl concentration of "like" in a sentence mentioned earlier.

[Calidovi]

Like, is saying 'like', like it's a comma, like, considered a bad or, like, annoying thing to do in, like, English?
I, like, understand that people, like, probably don't, like, exactly follow my posts with, like, bated breath, but has anybody ever, like, thought that I, like, say 'like' too much?
Like, I get this is, like, slightly dumb to worry about, like, stuff like this, but, like, help me out here.

Like, FTFY

Like, FTFY, like, so you had, like, maximum like usage, like, yeah.

You people are approaching Valley Girl concentration of "like" in a sentence mentioned earlier.

Didn't valley girls just stem from Cold War fears and newfound American consumerism?

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[timferius]

Like, is saying like, 'like', like it's like, a comma, like, considered a like, bad or, like, annoying thing to like, do in, like, English?
I, like, understand that like, people, like, probably don't, like, exactly follow my like, posts with, like, bated breath, but has like, anybody ever, like, thought that like, I, like, say 'like' like, too much?
Like, I get this is, like, slightly dumb to like, worry about, like, stuff like this, but, like, help me like, out here.

Like, FTFY

Like, FTFY, like, so you had, like, maximum like usage, like, yeah.

Like, you like totally like missed like a few 'likes'. Like I like like like, Soooo much, like y'know? Like, FTFY, like ya?

[Arx]

You people are approaching Valley Girl concentration of "like" in a sentence mentioned earlier.

I'm not sure, but I think this sentence would be better with more likes.

I just stop talking when I need to rethink the rest of the sentence. At least I try to do that instead of making meaningless sounds to fill the pause.

I only do that if I start having to chain filler words. Dropping one in while I work out how exactly to phrase the next thing I want to say isn't usually an issue.

[i2amroy]

Didn't valley girls just stem from Cold War fears and newfound American consumerism?

The actual original sources were this hit single and the character Jennifer DiNuccio from this sitcom. After that it was a simple matter of people emulating it to be funny or cool or whatever, until it actually became ingrained in our language.

[/weird language knowledge]

[Arx]

Didn't valley girls just stem from Cold War fears and newfound American consumerism?

The actual original sources were this hit single

"The lyrics were a deliberate attack on the slang and behaviour of stereotypical valley girls."

Seems to be a bit of a disconnect there.

[i2amroy]

Small rephrase to my previous statement. "Valleyspeak" already existed before that point, it was just confined to a very small group of people socially and geographically. It was only with that single and the sitcom that it actually boomed onto the widespread awareness, which is the only reason we know about it.