Do you mind when people repeat the same words over and over again in their speech?

that is so totally irritating. I totally hate when people are like, so repetitious. It, like, totally pisses me off.

Drives me up a wall. One guy in my class says “and so and and so forth” at least twice whenever he makes a class comment. I cringe every time he says it.

The worst case I ever ran across was my Chinese History professor. We once counted 227 “uhs” in the first fifteen minutes of class.

But, you know, like when somebody like says the same thing like over and over again, like it isn’t irritating per se, but it’s like more a sign of, you know, poor education.

@suncatnin There’s one in every class. In mine, it’s the one girl who always begins each sentence with a, “well, I know for me…”

@Darwin—What of the case with your history professor? Was he nervous or something else of the kind?

You mean like 163 “like“s in my friend’s speech? So awful…

In my 8th grade speech, I said the word “realize” a lot. lol

@DominicX lol! “I concur” was my repeat baby back then. I always thought it made me sound so intelligent…

@Spinel I think one of the problems is that he comes across as adding things to his speech to make himself sound more intelligent, but it ends up backfiring on him.

@suncatnin Sounds plausible.

@Spinel – It was a habit. It may have begun when he was young and nervous, but he kept on doing it well after having attained tenure.

It was supremely irritating.

A guy I know uses the word “Basically” all the freakin’ time. it drives me bonkers!

“Basically, I was going into town and then Basically that’s what I did, and Basically that’s what she said, basically” God it’s annoying.!!! Grrrr.

Basically

I worked in a psych hospital and you were never supposed to make assumptions abut people so we used the word “apparently” a lot. It got to the point that if I didn’t actually witness something I would say “apparently” even in my regular life. It took me a few years out of the business to break that habit.

I feel like a lot of people begin their statements with the totally unnecessary “I feel like”, as though I’d have no idea they probably feel that way by virtue of their saying it.

Or, in other cases, they use it to soften the statement of obvious facts. E.g., “I feel like grape-flavored candy never actually tastes like grapes.”

Yeah, we all feel like that. Thank you.

(It’s also not grammatical, but that’s another thread.)

@absalom

haha…my roommate says “I feel like” all the time when he and I have philosophical discussions. He’ll be like “I feel like…(20 second pause)” and then he’ll start talking to me. He knows he does that, though; he kind of makes fun of himself for it. Additionally, I begin a lot of sentence with “I think” and “I think that”; I try to tone it down a bit, though.

@DominicX

Yeah, just something I noticed recently because my roommate says it as well. It doesn’t annoy me or anything and I sometimes find myself saying it, too. I guess we tend to pick up our friends’ speech habits.

At this point in time I feel like, basically – and let me caveat this by saying that this isn’t all people – it seems as though many individuals might potentially tend to use what may be considered either stylistic tics or mere weasel words (no offense to the weasel-American community, it’s just a phrase) to, like, uh, pad, more-or-less, their sentences, um…out.

One of my professors in college said ‘generally’ about 3 times a sentence. He was a smart guy to have such a weird quirk.

As a teenager of the 80s, “like” was my big downfall. My grandmother cured me of it by repeating it every time I said it. For one day. Ugh… that was enough! Just recently I’ve realized that I start a lot of sentences here with “I think”. I’ve been trying to edit them out now that I’m aware of it.

On one of my deployments several years back, we would get an intelligence briefing from a certain Intel officer once a week and it was the longest 15 to 20 minutes of every week. Just about every other sentence, when he would need filler or be grasping for something to hold his briefing together, he would plug in “things of that nature” and we got so sick of hearing him say that.

”We detected some hostile activity near our base yesterday and things of that nature.”

”If you are going to be patrolling near a perimeter fence line, make sure you’re looking around and things of that nature.”

And on and on and on.

Thank you for the demonstration there….. I’m just going to go & jab something sharpe into my ears now. However, before I do that, I’m right with you. My oldest brother uses the phrase ’... at the end of the day’ numerous times in every conversation. Drives me mad, but hell, he’s my brother, not like I can just tell him to SHUT THE F*CK-UP!!!!!

My friend says “and stuff” all the time! “We went to the grocery store and stuff. Then we went to the mall and stuff. Then I bought a new bra and stuff.” I know she doesn’t realize she is saying it, but it drives me nuts. The worst part about it is that I have noticed myself saying it and not even realizing it until it comes out of my mouth and stuff. I have made a conscious effort to not say it.

I personally say “seriously” a lot. I didn’t even know until one day I asked my daughter to do pick up her room or something and her reply was “Seriously?!?” I happened to be talking to my sister on the phone right then and told her I didn’t know where Grace had learned that. And my sister’s reply was “Seriously? You say it all the time!”

I have a friend that in her conversation, everything is “ya’ know?” I want to tell her “yes, I DO know. Get on with it.” It drives me nuts!

I have some friends that do that; its ‘y’know’ every third word..sometimes they will insert “I don’t know, y’know?”..What would be a polite way to point this out to them?

I used to do the recording of the Sunday services for cds at my church; I would edit it and remove all the uhs and whatever else, before recording. The pastor heard it and told me to leave them in so she would remember to work on that. Maybe if people could hear themselves speak…y’know?

@BluRhino LOL…yes, I DO know. ;-)

Dude, like, that totally, like, sucks. Totally.

I say “like” too much, I catch myself doing it. LOL. One job I had it became popular to say “no brainer.” Everyone was saying it and it did get annoying. Oh, and “fabulous.” That was a big word with several of my staff members, I used it too much also. You will see on fluther I wrtie “Interesting” a lot. I have tried to think of another word I could switch off with, but haven’t come up with one, if anyone has any suggestions. Sometimes, I make it more wordy to avoid using interesting.

Some repetition is good. Our brains need it for improved retention and better learning results. But our brains also need a positive learning atmosphere and senseless repetitions are undermining this.

@TheJoker I have a friend that uses “at the end of the day” and she really uses it. Other day she phoned me complaining about her ex, it went something like this”.....at the end of the day I don’t care what he does, it’s his life, but at the end of the day they are his kids as well, if he doesn’t want to see him then that up to him, at the end of the day I just don’t care”.

I was thinking about this the other day. My father kept telling me,“look, all I’m saying is…” He said it about 6 times in one conversation! Clearly that wasn’t all that he was saying otherwise he would’ve stopped the first time he said it.

I had a boss who used that horrible business-speak all the time, words like “impactful” and “synergy” and, ugh, “at the end of the day”, and “at this point in time”. Blah.

@Dibley….. Hahahahahahaha, thats exactly like talking to my brother. It’s as though he feels he needs to keep concluding everything he says & provide a summary like I didn’t understand. All I can say is that… at the end of the day, he’s gonna have a whole lotta crud to sort!!!

@TheJoker Your funny.

@Dibley… Hah, thanks… thats why I wear all the clown make-up ;)

i just like, do it back to them like, omg like, omg! til they like stop doing it around me.

Recently ran into a presenter who began his answers to every question with, “It’s interesting…”

Worse, I found myelf doing it later on!

@life_after_2012 Are you from Liverpool?

I once had a class (Communication 101, ironically) with a woman who said ‘you know?’ a lot. Really a lot.

One day in response to some group discussion she said, ‘You know, you never know, you know?’

@Dibley Nope. Im from Florida.