Remember
when you diagrammed sentences in English class?
I am far from
precise in spoken English; so, this is not a complaint, but an observation.
My wife and I
were walking in the University gym today when I heard a young girl talking to a
friend: ‘We left, like, two-thirty this morning….’
What part of
speech is like? Like is in common usage
with everyone under thirty – and many older.
It is not used as a noun, it is not a verb, it is not a conjunction, it is not modifying
anything – do we need to invent a new
part of speech?
I think we
should indoctrinate young children to replace like with what the fuck.
We left, what
the fuck, two-thirty this morning…
Like, Wow!
What the
fuck, Wow!
And I was, like,
I’m not going.
And I was, what
the fuck, I’m not going.
I said, like,
really?
I said, what
the fuck, really?
You have got
to admit this replacement would make speech a lot more colorful.
the Ol’Buzzard
