Re: Linguistic tic's and crutches
I hate it when the young people say 'yeah' to check if you understand the meaning of what they have said.
I was once in PC World getting a computer fixed(yes, that is a joke) and a young asian man was explaining something to me, after each point he said 'yeah, right'....I nodded, but afterwards was happy to tell my daughter that all his explaining had been as worthless as the 'yeah, rights' in the conversation.
'Ok, yeah' is another one of my hates too......Miss BD has recently started using this phrase. Needless to say, I have told her that if I hear her use this phrase, then there will be no pocket money for the week.....so far so good.
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