Oh dear, it's been a long time since I wrote anything, but here we go with a rant similar to what I wrote about on the word, “Assume”, in my post Assume — Ass= Me / Them.
The current state of conversation
So here we go when having a conversation these days, there will come a time when a filler word has to be used whilst the person you’re talking to or you need a second to process your thoughts.
This tends to be one or a combination of the following: um, ahh, well, or, like, bro and you know etc. Not that there is anything wrong with using the occasional filler word, but they can be overused, and this has become popularised no thanks to reality TV, Hollywood and, most notably, the Kardashians.
The main culprit and most common filler word
One of those filler words I have listed has become the most popular of all of them, that being the word “Like”. Now, “like” is a great word and can be used in at least six different ways. All of these can be found by searching for the word in a dictionary/thesaurus, and they are the following;
- a verb
- an adverb
- a preposition
- a noun
