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1. "I'm just saying" (and its variants) isn't meaningless.
b. How do you know "y'know" dates from the early 80s? Which century?
iii. What's the apostrophe doing in your spelling of the term?
Enquiring minds want to know. At least this one does.
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Casssell's places "you know" at late 19C+
One might suppose the apostrophe replaces "ou"
Irritates me too 'cause, y' know, I'm a prescriptivist
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>One might suppose the apostrophe replaces "ou" now explain "ya' know"..
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>One might suppose the apostrophe replaces "ou"
now explain "ya' know"..
tsanks for, ah, spelling out the question, tsuwm. Guess I wasn't clear, huh.
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1. "I'm just saying" (and its variants) isn't meaningless.
b. How do you know "y'know" dates from the early 80s? Which century?
iii. What's the apostrophe doing in your spelling of the term?
Enquiring minds want to know. At least this one does.
From personal experience, I recall this becoming prevalent during the "hippies" era of American History. That was a time when things were, cool boss hip heavy groovy (much later, toward the Disco era) et cetera.
"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world" -Michael Crichton
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1. "I'm just saying" (and its variants) isn't meaningless.
I guess that depends on what you mean by meaning
You are so ugly. vs. I'm just saying, you are so ugly.
Does one really make you want to hit the speaker any less than the other?
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Another meaningless utterance that irritates me to hear is: Ya' know
There's a term for this sort of locution. Other varieties are "um", "er" and "uh". They're used to continue speech flow while the speaker is framing his thoughts thus avoiding being interrupted by someone who thinks the speaker has finished talking.
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A carry-over from the early '80s it is overused ... far too frequently.
Is there another way to overuse something?
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>There's a term for this..
here's one -- I don't know if this is yours..
embolalia the use of... um... virtually meaningless filler words, phrases, or... er... stammerings (or so-called hesitation-forms) in speech, whether as... uh... unconscious utterings while arranging one's thoughts or as... like... a vacuous, inexpressive... you know... mannerism
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Works for me.
I guess the reason some complain about some of these, e.g., "ya know" or "like", but not others, e.g., "um" or "er", is that the dissaproved terms have a life beyond their embolality and are thus somehow traitors. The words that are otherwise meaningless don't have anything to live up to and do not betray.
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Is there another way to overuse something?
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