Um, like, yeah.
I was just looking at some of my older posts and realized as I was browsing how much I use(d?) the word “anyway”.
I was also thinking how, when speaking out loud, we tend to frequently utilize unnecessary words in random places (e.g. So, yeah, like, I really, um, yeah, liked that).
And then I began to wonder where on earth (or some other place) those random sounds originated and why we use them in the places we do,
Whereupon I made the decision to create a list of unnecessary words and examples of how to use them:
1. Um. (So, um, I was thinking, um…maybe I could do, um, that thing that you mentioned, um, earlier.)
2. Uh. (Uh, I wasn’t really sure what,
uh, what it was exactly that I,
uh, that I mentioned earlier.
3. You know. (You know, sometimes I say these, you know…well, you know.)
4. Well. (Well, actually, you told me, well, that you kind of, well, already did that.)
5. S/he’s/I’m like. (Okay, so first she was like, Oh no you didn’t, and then I was like, Oh, yes, I did, then he was like, Come on, just cut it out already, then they were all like, Yeah, he’s right, come on, and then I was all like, Fine.)
6. So then, a.k.a. And Then. (Okay, I was doing that thing, and then she started watching, so then I stopped, so then she asked what the heck I was writing for, and then I told her, I’m just blogging, what? So then, she gets all mad and then I get all grumpy so then we didn’t talk to each other for almost that whole week.)
7. Okay. (Okay, so I was walking along, then, okay, so I was stopped by this log on the ground, so, okay, I like hopped over it, okay? But I tripped, okay, so I totally tore up my knee.)
8. Yeah. (Yeah, I know you were
doing nothing in particular, but,
yeah, so, yeah.
9. THE DREADED: LIKE.
(Like, I was totally gonna tell you I
was, like, blogging, but then I was
like, no, I better save it, then I,
like, was, like, completely forgetting
about, like, that whole thing, so,
like, yeah.)
Um, so like, yeah. You know.