It’s not just teenagers. Some of us younger professionals have to battle not using the filler around old folks who still get aggrevated by it’s use. Language in general is a shifting, flexible medium; unless we still refer to positive items as being “boss” or “keen”. At least this generation fills with words as opposed to “uhhhh”.
Many consider Shakespeare to be classic literature, and they forget he wrote in an era without any spelling rules or dictionaries and even made words up…PS Doug it’s the Bard’s birthday tomorrow!
I say good point ‘anonymous’, as a linguist I say we need to appreciate that language is constantly changing. People who complain about certain words etc. use words that would have meant nothing barely 100 years ago. Love the strip, but lets not get bitchy about it!
I, like, like it.
Ugh, the degradation of the English language is here to stay…
This is like, one of your best cartoons, like, this month.
You should, like, trust the teenager to know how to use ‘like’. *wise nod*
It’s not just teenagers. Some of us younger professionals have to battle not using the filler around old folks who still get aggrevated by it’s use. Language in general is a shifting, flexible medium; unless we still refer to positive items as being “boss” or “keen”. At least this generation fills with words as opposed to “uhhhh”.
Dude…like, what’s the problem, dude.
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L. L. L. L. L. L.
Yeah dude, I much prefer dude.
Many consider Shakespeare to be classic literature, and they forget he wrote in an era without any spelling rules or dictionaries and even made words up…PS Doug it’s the Bard’s birthday tomorrow!
This is, like, hella true.
Ooh, ooh, deathmatch! Shakespeare vs. Freud? Shakespeare vs. Jason?
Hey Anonymous with the giant explanation, DUH! That’s what 2008 is representing!
Go class of ’98!
I say good point ‘anonymous’, as a linguist I say we need to appreciate that language is constantly changing. People who complain about certain words etc. use words that would have meant nothing barely 100 years ago. Love the strip, but lets not get bitchy about it!