Glad I wasn’t the only one to notice Caroline Kennedy’s highly annoying “verbal tic” (according to Politico she said “you know” a staggering 138 times in her recent New York Times interview).
“It’s really, you know, it’s not about just the Kennedy name,” Kennedy said. Uh huh. Thank goodness she doesn’t also punctuate her sentences with the word “like” — another terribly difficult habit to break.
5 Comments
December 30, 2008 at 4:26 am
Ya know, I know, like, what ya mean.
December 30, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hey, like man, don’t sweat it dude, you know – whatever.
December 30, 2008 at 8:10 am
It’s like Harper’s “obviously”, with which he peppers his answers to journalists.
December 30, 2008 at 8:27 am
Y’know, I think I have heard that before?
December 31, 2008 at 6:40 am
I wondered if anybody noticed that other than myself. Last semester I arrived about 20 minutes before class and so I waited in the hallway outside our classroom and was bored…
I heard one of the young women sitting close by to me talking to her friends… and she said “like” about 3 times in sentence. I found that to be grating. Just for fun I decided to count how many “likes” were used by these young women in the 15 minutes before class.
I stopped after 140. I was having extreme difficulty keeping up with it all.
I really have wondered if anybody noticed this sort of thing, other than myself.
Thanks Red!