"So I go....and then she went ... so I go...

[dawgman]

and then she went...so then she goes...and then I went..."

Just a little piece of the vernacular that I abso-freakin-lutely hate.

[Demobrat]

1. I haven't heard that in years.

Of course I don't suffer fools.

[Aristus]

2. Ah, John Hughes dialogue.

Mall chick talk. Hate that shit. Dialect for the cranially challenged.

[progressiverealist]

3. So I'm like,

and she's like, and then I'm like...

Or my current favorite (I am a professor): ending every sentence with "or whatever" to show an acceptably cool level of disinterest in some academic matter.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. Ah, the lazy dialoguist

You know what I'm saying? No, I'm just saying. Ya hear me?

ya.

And then I'm like...


Sheer laziness.

[ProudGerman]

5. That isn't lazy

At least there are separated into distinct words. That doesn't bother me too much. What I hate is every sentenced being suffixed with "nowhatI'msayin?" which sounds like noamsayin. Almost makes watching post game interviews painful sometimes.

[CanuckAmok]

6. aaaagh! Me too, and Mrs. Amok, who is 33 and has a...

...Masters in Lit does it all the time.

Also, people who, like, say, like, "like", about three times, like, a breath.

And people who say "blahblahblah", as in "So she's like, 'blahblahblah' about grammar, and I'm, like, 'blahblahblah, relax'..."