It's driving me fucking nuts....

[barbra]

you know, I here more and more peers saying 'or something' its like a cop out for whatever point they are making.

[Haunted]

I am stuck in the eighties. I say, "like" a lot. I know it drives people nuts. Instead of "whatnot" I tend to say, "and such."

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by Haunted
I am stuck in the eighties. I say, "like" a lot. I know it drives people nuts. Instead of "whatnot" I tend to say, "and such."

The "like" thing depends on the person and the frequency with which they use it.

"and such" beats "and whatnot" any day. It actually has a real meaning to it. "Whatnot" isnt even a word.

[filmmaker2]

Well. you know, I used to do that sort of thing with "you know." All the freaking time too! Several times in a sentence, all the time, every conversation. And nobody bothered me about it but the thing was that at some point I noticed that I was doing it, and it started to drive ME nuts.

So I sort of observed myself whenever I was doing it and figured out why I was doing it (it turned out I was stalling while I thought of other things to say), and then I put an effort into stopping myself whenever those 2 dreaded words were about to be spoken.

After just a few months, I had broken the habit. But now I have a problem with "sort of." Sort of this, sort of that. It's sort of a horror movie and sort of not. It's sort of a Mexicali-type restaurant, et cetera.

[barbra]

Originally posted by filmmaker2

[The_Return]

Originally posted by urgeok
the one that drives me crazy is "....... and whatnot'

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One of my friends is like that...oh the fun we have pissing him off. Slip it in conversaion as much as possible....see how long till he cracks :p