Like usage.

I like it. It's very lifelike, kept me in suspense.

Elitist is a word I learned recently and now I use it at every possible opportunity. Are you being it?

I'm not sure 12,000 views is exactly viral (as yet)...like

Me elitist FTSE? I'm like a man of the people.

It may just be a minor virus Francis, but it can dream.

Ah, but are you a man of the elite people, chuck? This is what our readers want to know, like.

I'm not sure what 'elite' means anymore FTSE. It seems some people inevitably set themselves apart, and/or distinguish themselves. But who? What? Why? Does it make them better or worse than the rest? Haven't we had this discussion before?

Yeah, but having the same discussion twice saves you having to think of anything new. You'll thank me for it one day.

I'll let the elite make that decision. That's what they're for. :)

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What does that mean?

Dunno, I, like, don't speak elite.

I thought Ms Geldof sounded like a hen with an Aberdonian accent.

I think I commented on her language deficit on a thread here some time ago. I pointed out if that's the product of a 20k a year private school, I'd sue the school for damages.

The modern phenomenon of 'like' usage winds me up even more than Jafaican does. I have to move seats on the bus if I am near people talking in this way and I certainly couldn't work or socialise with them. Elitist? Probably. Or maybe just a plain old-fashioned snob. I don't seem to be able to help myself. I didn't wake up one morning and decide to mount a hate campaign against these people.

To me, this has the same effect as nails down blackboards. I feel the same internal discord a musician experiences when hearing somebody sing off-key. The feelings I experience are beyond my control!

jude

Did you use the Leet translator, Ewan? :-D

People prefer the company of their own type. Groovy socialists like other groovy socialists. White van men get on best with other white van men. Popes like to surround themselves with cardinals, they don't care to live amongst butchers. Army people like army people and don't feel comfortable around civilians. People dream, or have nightmares, about what other kinds of people are like. Look no further than Macjoyce/Mr. Beater for an extreme example! Where's the surprise?

Peaches, like, doesn't like, like, the way you talk, like.

Gorgeous Georg isn't a Cardinal! Must be a case of Germans sticking together. I concur with your theory; it is the old truism of 'birds of a feather'.

I thought Gorgeous Georg was the Pope's batman, or the equivalent thereof? Servants, no matter how loyal, don't count! They might be treated as one of the family but they never quite belong.

True, but most of the College of Cardinals (except the titular Cardinals of Rome) aren't in Rome because they have their own sees to see! I think being Pope has to be the loneliest job in the world.

next to being God himself perhaps, but we all do that

I think being Pope has to be the loneliest job in the world.

He can always call god on the hotline if he fancies a chat.

I believe the proper Christian response to God's loneliness is that he has all us lovely people to keep him company, although I don't know if we could keep our end up in conversation with a being capable of creating universes. Our conversation would be about as interesting to a god as the barking of dogs.

Woof!

Been there, done that!

A quote from James Ellroy:

“A young woman was trying to tell her friend that she had turned down the advances of a suitor. And she couldn’t even say, ‘I rejected him’. She said: ‘It’s like, it’s like, it’s like, like, I'm like, it’s like ... No!' It was the most amazing thing! So you have a full generation now who sound equivocal, mitigating, befuddled, unable to exposit their lines in any kind of direct language whatsoever. Whatsoever!”

But surely it's just, like, the evolution of language? All the redundant words are being removed and soon we'll just be left with 'like'. So much more convenient. For instance, poems will automatically rhyme:

Like like like like like like like like,
Like like like like like like like like,
Like like like like like,
Like like like like like,
Like like like like like like like like!

That silly young like-like of like, as we say in the transitional period.