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6:23am June 24, 2013
writeswrongs: cumaeansibyl: peeingisfreeing: coffeeandconlangs: Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac. yes, colloquial speech is stupid discourse particles are stupid quotative particles are stupid fillers are stupid lower registers of speech = stupid!!!!!!woah aaa/ Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid?  Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women? And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions? 1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything 2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her 3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.”  It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.   ———— [My post starts here. sorry for formatting.] Especially fun if you have language problems and use like to help you find words. My teachers humiliated me for it and got the entire class, including the bullies who called themselves my friends, laughing as “motivation” - at a time when I had already started slowly re-losing the ability to talk (I had already lost it and regained it in early childhood). As in, had started having more and more periods of being unable to talk at all (during which I was being physically abused at times to “snap me out of it”, shaken, hit, etc.). Then they weren’t content just to do it in class and started commenting on how I talked outside of class. Really, really great move guys. They stopped me every time I said like in class until I had trouble talking at all, and then told me I had trouble talking because now I actually had to think, and that this was progress. Assholes. They also told me I sounded uneducated, for that and other reasons probably related to disability and the class/regional background of my family members.

writeswrongs:

cumaeansibyl:

peeingisfreeing:

coffeeandconlangs:

Unnecessary “fillers” in our speech. I’d rather have “like” than up-talking, though (if we had to choose one, that is). Ewwww, up-talking. Then again, a combination of the two would render me homicidal maniac.

yes, colloquial speech is stupid

discourse particles are stupid

quotative particles are stupid

fillers are stupid

lower registers of speech = stupid!!!!!!woah aaa/

Like, did you ever notice? That, like, the speech patterns people, like, think are stupid?  Are, like, commonly associated with, like, women?

And, like, there’s this thing? Where, like, women aren’t supposed to be, like, assertive? So they, like, qualify their speech? Because, like, we’re not supposed to, like, stand by our opinions?

1) humiliate women so they don’t feel qualified to speak authoritatively about anything

2) humiliate women for speaking in such a way that reflects how you treat her

3) laugh, you are superior because you don’t use words like “like.”  It isn’t as if being a huge stupid asshole has ever made you worse than a woman who speaks with verbal tics.  

————

[My post starts here. sorry for formatting.]

Especially fun if you have language problems and use like to help you find words. My teachers humiliated me for it and got the entire class, including the bullies who called themselves my friends, laughing as “motivation” - at a time when I had already started slowly re-losing the ability to talk (I had already lost it and regained it in early childhood). As in, had started having more and more periods of being unable to talk at all (during which I was being physically abused at times to “snap me out of it”, shaken, hit, etc.). Then they weren’t content just to do it in class and started commenting on how I talked outside of class. Really, really great move guys. They stopped me every time I said like in class until I had trouble talking at all, and then told me I had trouble talking because now I actually had to think, and that this was progress. Assholes.

They also told me I sounded uneducated, for that and other reasons probably related to disability and the class/regional background of my family members.

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