To ask for tips on how to stem the flood of "Like" ?

[TrickyD]

DGD, is, like, nearly 13 and continually punctuates her sentances with, like, "Like" .
Has anyone had any success in discouraging this irritating habit? We have tried leaving a pile of coins and deducting one for every "like" with no success. I am reluctant to up this to a pile of fivers.

What I mean about my writing a paper is that I don’t think it’s going anywhere!

I used to drive my (pedant) mother mad with it, thankfully I grew out of it 😎

I don't think some people grow out of it. I work at an RG university and am shocked at how many students can't speak without the use of the word 'like'. It doesn't do them any favours when giving presentations here and it certainly won't get them very far when going for interviews with prestigious organisations.

Coolgirls, I wish I had not read your post.

Grannygrissle's dog training collar may be the way to go.

A teacher told me it sounded silly and American and would be off putting to future employers. I gave it up for lent and never started doing it again.

Why does it matter? Leave her alone and stop finding fault, she'll grow out of it.

Leave her alone and stop finding fault, she'll grow out of it

Not necessarily, according to several other posters.

I love my DGD and do not think that seeking ways in which this one habit could be overcome constitutes 'finding fault'.

Does she begin every sentence with 'so' as well?

I think it's too late, you are doomed to listen to this forever!

I find that as soon as DD decides on one of these so called 'cool words' I stamp on it straight away, before it becomes ingrained. She knows I hate things like this, with a passion. She was declaring everything as 'legit' for about a day, until I asked her what it meant, told her to go and look it up and until she could explain her use of it, she could not use it.

My 23 year old sister still does this! She hates it and tries to stop herself.

I don't know what to suggest, sorry- I think you just have to let her get on with it! She won't stop if she doesn't want too.

I once worked at a school where ofsted actually wrote students using "like" as an issue in their report... I'm not quite sure how they expected it to be resolved :)

Ds1, now 22, used to do this. It did pass, eventually, although I do admit to a little light-hearted teasing on my part about it at the time.

It's about as irritating a habit as those who preface every sentence with "And I turned around and said..." I did once ask one culprit if they got dizzy ,what with all the spinning, but they didn't understand the (poor) joke.

No, thank God, cloudy.

I knew someone once use used 'like' to such an extent it made her conversation virtually unintelligible. Her friends and I used to rib her about it but she never changed.

Even though I hate 'So' at the beginning of a sentence, I find myself doing it occasionally and have to give myself a slap on the wrist

Me: DD what did you have for lunch?
DD: It was like lasagne.
Me: Canelloni?
DD: What?

DH responds with something along the lines of

"Like, so not actually? So, like 5 minutes could be 50 or 500? Interesting."

My DH either says 'what was it like?'
Or 'so if it was only like that, what was it actually?'

The kids are learning fast. And also starting to argue why they used the word 'like' correctly that time They are always wrong

I’m never quite sure exactly what people’s issue with saying ‘like’ is. It’s just a filler word, same as ummmm or well and so on. I don’t think it makes anyone sound thick or anything, it sounds very judgemental to base your opinion on someone’s speech pattern and not the content of what they say.

Is she on Facebook?
Every time she says Like, do the Facebook Thumbs-up sign.

Lots of young people do not seem to have grown out of it I’m afraid. DH nearly lost his shit with one of his junior doctors who kept doing it, its a red rag to a bull with him!

My DMIL uses like in almost every sentence - she's 80...some habits are hard to break