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#121
Samurai top knot was around long before the modern man-bun, but is essentially the same.

This is faddish, but continues to get worse & worse. Why does everyone want to pretend they are a Valley Girl?
People use LIKE in everyday conversation more than ever, & not just teens & young adults.

"Literally" is now being thrown around in advertising, so that is going to just get worse & worse.
 
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#123
Well, if we're all going to gripe about annoying things that younger people do, why do many (if not most) of them now reflexively start nearly all sentences (especially when encouraged to offer an explanation or answer a question) with "So..."?

They are not saying "So" to continue with a line of thought they have already begun to present, or saying "So" because the next words from their mouths will be describing the consequence resulting from something they have already described. No, they are saying "So" to begin their first utterances in any given situation. What, are they telling us a bedtime story?!?

Oops, sorry, I have to go.I think I hear some kids on my front lawn. :laugh:
 
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#124
Or, seemingly obligatorily used at the beginning of answering a question, heard even on big media network interviews by "experts".

Q: "Does it appear that the hurricane will be moving away from the mainland or out to sea?"
A: "So....the direction of movement is affected by things like the ocean currents, and the rotation of the earth."

Q: "It seems that there is a reaction in certain parts of the world to the flood of tourists since Covid."
A: "So....these are countries that have local populations who are finding that their daily life is being affected."
 
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SDC1-ClickClack said:
Well, if we're all going to gripe about annoying things that younger people do, why do many (if not most) of them now reflexively start nearly all sentences (especially when encouraged to offer an explanation or answer a question) with "So..."?

They are not saying "So" to continue with a line of thought they have already begun to present, or saying "So" because the next words from their mouths will be describing the consequence resulting from something they have already described. No, they are saying "So" to begin their first utterances in any given situation. What, are they telling us a bedtime story?!?

Oops, sorry, I have to go.I think I hear some kids on my front lawn. :laugh:
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Or, seemingly obligatorily used at the beginning of answering a question, heard even on big media network interviews by "experts".

Q: "Does it appear that the hurricane will be moving away from the mainland or out to sea?"
A: "So....the direction of movement is affected by things like the ocean currents, and the rotation of the earth."

Q: "It seems that there is a reaction in certain parts of the world to the flood of tourists since Covid."
A: "So....these are countries that have local populations who are finding that their daily life is being affected."
 
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E2942 said:
Samurai top knot was around long before the modern man-bun, but is essentially the same.

This is faddish, but continues to get worse & worse. Why does everyone want to pretend they are a Valley Girl?
People use LIKE in everyday conversation more than ever, & not just teens & young adults.

"Literally" is now being thrown around in advertising, so that is going to just get worse & worse.
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Like totally awesome.

Coincidentally I just watched this yesterday. She tells how it came to be.
 
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DownRound said:
Or, seemingly obligatorily used at the beginning of answering a question, heard even on big media network interviews by "experts".

Q: "Does it appear that the hurricane will be moving away from the mainland or out to sea?"
A: "So....the direction of movement is affected by things like the ocean currents, and the rotation of the earth."

Q: "It seems that there is a reaction in certain parts of the world to the flood of tourists since Covid."
A: "So....these are countries that have local populations who are finding that their daily life is being affected."
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In these instances, it seems that "So..." is being used like "Well..." to give people a moment to think about what they're going to say.
 
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#131
DownRound said:
Viewer advisory, language, vocal fry:
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Listening to teenage girls' and young women's voices descend into something that sounds more like that of a woman in her 50s who smoked two packs of cigarettes and drank whiskey every day for 30 years is most unpleasant.
 
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SDC1-ClickClack said:
Well, if we're all going to gripe about annoying things that younger people do, why do many (if not most) of them now reflexively start nearly all sentences (especially when encouraged to offer an explanation or answer a question) with "So..."?

They are not saying "So" to continue with a line of thought they have already begun to present, or saying "So" because the next words from their mouths will be describing the consequence resulting from something they have already described. No, they are saying "So" to begin their first utterances in any given situation. What, are they telling us a bedtime story?!?

Oops, sorry, I have to go.I think I hear some kids on my front lawn. :laugh:
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"Not gonna lie" to start a sentence.

Were you going to or are you now? is my thought. Why do you need to reassure everyone that you are telling the truth?
 
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DownRound said:
Wow, she's great.
Looks like she overcame the burden of her name really well.
Actually, I'll bet Frank, as ummm, unique as he was, took his responsibilities as a parent seriously.
In his own way.
Did something right.
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"Overcame the burden of her name"? Not sure if you mean her last name, which identifies her as having had Frank as her dad, or her first name, which identifies her as someone who was given a creative and unique name by her parents and chose not to change it. She and her siblings certainly had the option to have their names changed legally, so if they did not do so, it stands to reason that they must like their names.

It sounds like YOU think having an unusual and innovative name is somehow a burden, and you then presume others would surely feel the same way. I would imagine that some people who were given unusual names by their beatnik or hippie parents might have opted for standard, run-of-the-mill names because they did not like getting odd looks from others with narrow minds, but that does not mean everyone took that attitude.
 
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SDC1-ClickClack said:
...others with narrow minds...
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I can't help but reading that with a feeling that there's a bit of a lack of self awareness there.

Not everyone you disagree with should be assumed to be narrow minded as a result, or that your self-elevation makes you an authority on the matter. I read the whole of your post with interest until that bit came up.

Carry on now.
 
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#137
Thank gawd this fashion didn't catch on....
wuz seriously worried

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Still have my mood ring somewhere...
 
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#138
You have to mix vocal fry with the duck-quack timbre to get the full annoyance of what it's like to stand in line behind two twenty-something middle class moms. Oy vey! Do your husbands find those voices attractive? Does ANYONE? Fran Dreschler's character was supposed to be exaggerated for comic effect, not part of an instruction manual!

And then if you go to Europe, at least up till a few years ago, you find women talking in normal, pleasing tones. So it is possible.
 
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#140
Polfuste said:
Today Tatoos became fads. But in the future, not-a-single-tatoos will become the fad. And i'll be hype. I prepair future :smug:
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Never ending cycle, ain't it. What's trendy becomes absolute necessity, then discarded and replaced by what had previously in its own turn been discarded, only to find itself once more the flavor of the week.

All narcissism based fads suck, and the only trends that don't are ones popularized on merit rather than look@me driven knee jerk choices.
 
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