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Monday, September 24, 2007
What, like, um, bugs you, you know?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
My husband and I had a conversation the other day regarding the words we use in our every day conversation- and in particular, words we hear a lot in each others’ conversations.
“You say ‘oh my G_d a lot and really,’” my husband said half seriously and half kiddingly.
“Oh yeah? Really?” I said.
At this point my feathers were starting to get a bit ruffled so I let him have it.
“Are you aware that you use the words ‘you know’ a whole lot in the middle of your sentences?”
“Do I? I wasn’t aware of that.”
I could see we weren’t getting anywhere so I tried to make an agreement with him whereby each time either one of us used the word or words of annoyance, we’d give some kind of hand sign. But that could lead to other problems.
So, I think we will just learn to live with each others’ verbal tics. Which brings me to the point of this whole thing.
There are plenty of people you know, friends, husbands, wives, siblings who have lots of verbal tics. You know, (whoops) they use words like…oh my gosh, you know, and one that my teenager uses frequently-like.
Words can be powerful tools or can annoy that heck out of people. What verbal tics bother you and have you ever said anything to that person about it?
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