Misuse of words( light hearted)

[Ollienoodles45isbananas]

My dd constantly uses the word "like" multiple times in sentences, it's slowly driving me insane. Iv asked her so many times to not use the word unless it's actually needed in the sentence. To make matters worse she never ever stops talking so we must here "like" a thousand times a day. So aibu to either charge her 10p for every time she says it, or gag her? Is this something that's happening with most kids of today?

So iv just flicked her ear after saying it five times in two minutes, she is not impressed

Does she watch any of the crappy american children's programmes. DDs friend says 'kay, kay' and other pseudo american nonsense. I've banned the main culprits for my sanity!

Yes sighing all the kids actually type KK on text messages meaning OK. As if OK wasn't shorthand already!!

Please don't mention teenagers to, she watches everything. Victorious is the big one right now, my whole life is turning into a musical of likes [shocked]

My old boss used to say "Pacific" instead of "Specific".

Drove me mad!! As does people saying "Loose" when they mean "lose".

Or "I'm going to itch this".

NO!! You're going to scratch it..........

"would of" is lovely

Keep flicking her! We had to do something with my 3 DSDs and eventually, it worked and they stopped. I think they just became more aware of it each time and it made for stilted conversations when they started to say it but interrupted themselves!

I'm sick of hearing 'prostrate' instead of prostate at work.

Ds2 started up speaking a few months ago. That had to stop pretty damn quick

'Brought' instead of bought is another annoying one.

My DH says that I am a mind of information

St Pancreas station. Always a favourite destination. Heard it on the radio this very day!

A colleague once asked if I was the black sheet of the family. Also, people who type 'defiantly' instead of 'definitely'.

My boss uses the word 'obviously' many times in one sentence.

I once counted he said it 20 times in a 2 minute phone conversation to someone. I wouldn't mind if anything he was talking about was obvious,..it wasn't.

DSD calls things 'tensional' . I think it should be a word!

I heard someone pronounce 'modules' as 'modd-oools' today, which puzzled me for a minute.

I have conditioned 'like' put of my 12 year old (well, in my earshot anyway) by always responding with:

Ds - it was like brilliant!
Me - what? really good? That's like brilliant.

Ds - and I was like really cold
Me - what? Actually frozen? That's like really cold

And other such annoyance.

It worked eventually and was quite fun thinking of things that were just 'like' the thing he was telling me about

My mum has painted her front room in 'Mongolia ' she was working like a truncheon and policemen carry trojens, she also says pretrend instead of pretrend

My mum used to talk about how amazing her visit to Albatros was.
Alcatraz is where she went!!

Ooh and when people say, that will learn you!!
Its teach FFs.

ah, 'pedestools, instead of 'pedestals'.

Pede stools

My neighbour always said contortionist instead of extortionate. conjured up some funny images.

I used to want to scream at school when someone would say 'will you borrow me ....'

Grrrr cats whiskers I hate that! or "Can you give me a lend of..."

'Like' can be regional too. Is she from a different area to you?