AIBU to detest kids saying 'like' 4 times per sentence?

[Snidpan]

or to put it into youth speak:
"Like: when do - like - kids, stop like...saying "like", you know, 4 times per, like, sentence?"

When do they, like, grow out of it?

I think like you don't understand OP like what it is to be growing up like as a young person like in the present times and that like this is sooo unfair for you like to mention like the English that like I use when talking like to the olds. Like you don't understand like that we are having like to live like in the new normal like where we are not like supposed to gather like in groups of like more than six of us like, and like there are all these older people like who thought it was sick like to take away our future like by supporting Brexit like so we can't easily work abroad like anymore.

I do this. And I’m 26. So possibly never.

Drives me mad!
Also, as pp said, started a sentence with 'so'.

*Starting

Only four? I was sitting near a young woman in her 20s on the train and I counted 40 likes before I gave up. I wonder what they're like in meetings and seminars - Basically, like, it must takes ages literally, like, to say anything.

with young people it’s a linguistic filler whilst vocabulary is still developing and the brain runs faster than the mouth.

innit.

fucknuckle
I don't recall talking like today's youth seem to. Mind you I did just grunt most of the time.

No, you're not being unreasonabale and it is infuriating! Alongside the trend to of what I like to call the "Aussie Inflection" (ending a sentance on a higher tone of voice) and "you know" (nope, I don't) every 5 words I can barely cope with having the radio on anymore. "To be honest" (you're not, then), "I'm not being funny" (I know you're not) and "I don't mean to be horrible but . . . . (go right ahead, meany) also really make me grind my teeth!

I actually just signed up here to post this after enjoying lurking/reading for a couple of weeks. 2020, eh? Could it get any stranger?!

This grates on me so much. My 6 year old niece does this non stop and SIL does nothing to try to correct or highlight it

Like what? Hate it too

'Today yea right at school like this boy like fell yea right and like his mum like yea right had to like come get him yea right'

Aaarrrggfhhhh

A hundred years ago, teenagers caused an 8 day long riot over straw hats, so I think we're getting off pretty 'like-ly'!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_Hat_Riot

It was always 'turned around and said' when I was in my youth. If you were telling someone about your day you would say ''so Mr Smith turned around and said, ''please pay attention' so I turned around and said 'I was paying attention' then he turned around and said 'Northern you clearly weren't'" we must have been pivoting around like rotisserie chickens in the olden days

I find these comments really sad and smug. I wonder why people struggle with relating to teenagers and children so much if they are so contemptuous of them?

I ask "like what" and kept asking each time, they soon stopped.

with young people it’s a linguistic filler whilst vocabulary is still developing and the brain runs faster than the mouth

Well I never, thanks for that @fucknuckle. I wonder why the chosen "linguistic filler" changes from time to time?

I've a niece who like speaks like this like it would be ok but she's go a degree in like English & creative writing like 😬😬

My DD says “word” when she agrees with something I’ve said 🤷🏼‍♀️

I hate it and my 10yo does it constantly! I ignore it, because I think trying to correct it will embed it further! Hoping for, like, growing out of it.

I did think, “ha!” at this convo with her friend though:

• I’m going to wear a costume, like, Maleficent
• so what will you wear?
• Maleficent
• but you said LIKE Maleficent?

I wanted to swap children I remind her of that when the likes get really OTT.

@BigSandyBalls2015

My DD says “word” when she agrees with something I’ve said 🤷🏼‍♀️

I get, “true dat”.

Thank God for the demise of 'litrally'.

DD is a heavy liker, but she seems to be able to control it unless excited or talking to friends. Interviews and adult conversations are fine.

Like... do you know what I mean?

I’m 40 and suspect I say it still. Lots of my friends do too. So maybe never!

There is an episode of Desperate Housewives where a teenager says to Bree, "So, am I, like, fired?" And she replies,"No, you aren't like fired. You are fired!"

YANBU but I remember when I was a teenager being picked up about it by adults, and for dropping letters (or should that be le-ers). I don't remember when I grew out of it but I did. My 10 and 13 year old are now the same with the 'like', and so is my 18 old niece.