Styleforum › Forums › Lifestyle › Social Life, Food & Drink, Travel › Annoying verbal tics?
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Annoying verbal tics? - Page 4

post #46 of 53
5/22/08 at 10:30am
Quote:
Originally Posted by dnarnya View Post
"ya know what I'm sayin'?"
Exactly.. hate it. Young black men do that all the time to me. As an older black man, it grates the hell out of me. Sometimes I feel like saying, "fuck no, I don't know what the hell you're sayin'!"
Reply
Reply
post #47 of 53
5/22/08 at 10:32am
Quote:
Originally Posted by gmku View Post
I have a friend who has the habit of beginning about every third sentence with, "Well, you know, what I guess I'm really tyring to say is..."

One time I was sitting with him and his wife when he did this, and then his wife, when he finished, said, "Well, you know, what I think he is really trying to say is..."

I just about lost it. I had to bite my cheeks to keep from laughing.

I thought I'd get used to it, but it's so bad I can hardly stand to have a conversation with him. Like, just say it! Don't try to say it! Don't tell me you're trying to say it! Just say it!

haha i don't think we can have a real life conversation if this is the case

i was on the phone with a friend from the states yesterday, after i hung up i thought about all these things mentioned here i'm guilty with, it was a "DAMN" moment considering i don't use the phone for chats often. I like to think I don't really use any of these that often in live interaction.
Reply
Reply
post #48 of 53
5/22/08 at 10:41am
..I realize this is about verbal ticks, but the motivations and thoughts drive it somewhat.

For example, being asked for advice by someone at work when they feel they are being treated unfairly for me goes like this..

Young coworker: Man, I hate this place, they are fulla shit up in here.
Me: In what way?
Them: What? It's just ridiculous how they do things?
Me: Ridiculous in what way?
Them: What are you talking about??? Fuck!!!
Me: I can't help you if you don't help me understand what's really going on.
Them: Whatever.


Young black coworker: Man they are trippin'.
Me: Trippin' how?
Them: Man, you know how they are!
Me: Who is "they" and what did they do?
Them: Why you actin' like that?
Me: Acting like what...?...I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
Them: What the fuck man, I'm tryin' to tell yo ass, dayum!
Me: Nigga please you ain't said shit..come to me when you have a REAL issue!

Reply
Reply
post #49 of 53
5/22/08 at 10:44am
And the infamous..

"..every single time"
"..exactly the same thing I was thinkin'..."

And..

"..I know - right!?"
Reply
Reply
post #50 of 53
5/22/08 at 10:56am
Quote:
Originally Posted by THEBIGDODDY View Post
..I realize this is about verbal ticks, but the motivations and thoughts drive it somewhat.

For example, being asked for advice by someone at work when they feel they are being treated unfairly for me goes like this..

Young coworker: Man, I hate this place, they are fulla shit up in here.
Me: In what way?
Them: What? It's just ridiculous how they do things?
Me: Ridiculous in what way?
Them: What are you talking about??? Fuck!!!
Me: I can't help you if you don't help me understand what's really going on.
Them: Whatever.


Young black coworker: Man they are trippin'.
Me: Trippin' how?
Them: Man, you know how they are!
Me: Who is "they" and what did they do?
Them: Why you actin' like that?
Me: Acting like what...?...I'm trying to figure out what's going on.
Them: What the fuck man, I'm tryin' to tell yo ass, dayum!
Me: Nigga please you ain't said shit..come to me when you have a REAL issue!


these could go in a Boondocks comic strip.
Reply
Reply
post #51 of 53
5/22/08 at 1:33pm
The late basketball great Dennis Johnson when interviewed in the 80's by the local Boston sports reporter John Dennis (currently an uber morning cohost with the provocative and erudite Gerry Callahan on Sports Radio Giant WEEI AM 850 in Boston) would resort to saying "or,so" instead of etc., and the like, what have you...

It was mind-numbing and totally incongruent to hear him end his non-sequitors and every single one of his answers with that phrase. As an illustration verbalize any statement, comment or simple sentence and then end it with "or, so" and you'll get where I'm coming from.
Reply
Reply
post #52 of 53
5/22/08 at 3:04pm
Hot damn, I just posted this first one in the Annoying Buzz Words thread, but it works here too:

A lot of women and girls I know frequently use the phrase, "I'm over it" to mean, "I'm really annoyed about it," which doesn't make a bit of sense to me, seeing as how they're pretty much opposites; they seem to utter this after every single annoying thing mentioned.


On a somewhat amusing note, my grandmother has a tendency to use the phrase, "and everything and that you know," after every other sentence. She's also partially deaf (and has been for years,) and thus people talking to her need to repeat themselves frequently, but since she didn't want anyone to know she was losing her hearing instead of saying, "what?" she'd say, "that what?" to make it seem like she just wasn't paying attention, which has by now completely replaced "what?" in her vocabulary, meaning "that what?" is asked even when it makes no sense whatsoever. She's in her 80s so she gets a pass from me, but man does it drive my mum and my aunts and uncles crazy.
Reply
Reply
post #53 of 53
5/23/08 at 2:07pm
When people stick "uh" in between every 3 or 4 words.

I also would like to add that double negatives drive me crazy, and also that the word "just", as in "you're just trying to protect them" should be avoided. For me, the word often signals preconceived notions and lack of understanding. It seems to be accompanied by a closed mind in my experience, so I don't use it, period.

I'm working on getting rid of "you know" at the moment, and I just recently cured myself of the "you've got, I've got" syndrome.
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
Styleforum › Forums › Lifestyle › Social Life, Food & Drink, Travel › Annoying verbal tics?