“The Other L-Word”
Hitchens’ attack on the modern usage of “you know”, “like”
and “OK” as well as the emergence of “up speak” (raising the tone of the end of
all sentences as if they were, like, questions, you know? He writes, “Many
parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the
way the weed-style growth of ‘like’ has spread through the idiom of the young.
And it’s true that..the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic,
driving out the rest of the vocabulary like candy expels vegetable.” How does
candy expel vegetables? …correct use of “like” but a terrible simile.
New Learning: “…CAROLINE KENNEDY managed to say ‘you know’
more than 200 times in an interview with the New York Daily News, and on 130
occasions while talking to the New York Times...” while being interviewed about
a possible appointment to fill her uncles Senate seat.
New Word: déclassé = French for fallen in social stature.
Here is the audio of Caroline Kennedy talkting to the NYTs:
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