Aye. Of course you don’t. You’re a massive snob and a Tory and you went to a private school
I edit verbatim interviews all the time. Every single person says ‘like’ ‘you know’ ‘kind of’ ‘just’ and ‘really’ about twenty times a minute. People who do a lot of public speaking don’t tend to do it as much, but that’s because they’ve trained themselves out of it. It is honestly so, so normal
I think it’s totally fine to notice that the way you’re speaking makes your meaning less clear and to work to change it, if you want to. But de Bernières is just talking about working-class people. There’s disdain there, and it’s shitty.
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These people think they’re preserving something beautiful, but beauty isn’t uniformity. They make their worlds smaller and sadder.
Ordinarily, this statement alone would be grounds to refuse the accreditation of an Ambassador.
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Tom Leonard was worth a hundred of these elitist bores.
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Speech disfluencies and filler words are a normal feature of spoken language. Everybody uses them. Maybe you don’t if you’re taught only poor thickos do it and also a teacher hits you with a big stick if you utter one yourself
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The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières
