The habit of turning a statement into a question by tacking on "you know?" to the end of it has been abused for as long as I can remember and it seems to have spread nationwide, like McBurgers.
The insertion of ", like," has been more recent but even old fat guys seem to feel comfortable using it as if, like, they were born in the valley, as if.
I do remember the first time I heard the phrase, "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to......blah blah," and it made me cringe. Rocket scientists never refer to themselves as rocket scientists.
But, that didn't matter and English has been plagued by that phrase for many years now. And, there's a new kid on the block.
I was watching the NewsHour, listening to the mayor of Minneapolis being interviewed about the 35W disaster and heard, for the second time, the term, "God willing," being spliced into a sentence. I think the term may be common in the East, but the good mayor is most certainly an infidel. The Twin Cities have a large Muslim population and it seems to have rubbed off on him.
English is so accommodating, you know?
The insertion of ", like," has been more recent but even old fat guys seem to feel comfortable using it as if, like, they were born in the valley, as if.
I do remember the first time I heard the phrase, "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to......blah blah," and it made me cringe. Rocket scientists never refer to themselves as rocket scientists.
But, that didn't matter and English has been plagued by that phrase for many years now. And, there's a new kid on the block.
I was watching the NewsHour, listening to the mayor of Minneapolis being interviewed about the 35W disaster and heard, for the second time, the term, "God willing," being spliced into a sentence. I think the term may be common in the East, but the good mayor is most certainly an infidel. The Twin Cities have a large Muslim population and it seems to have rubbed off on him.
English is so accommodating, you know?
