Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Well, I've never dropped the word 'eh.' That's still at the end of my sentence, replacing the question mark.
I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.
The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.
People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
Everybody kind of always bags on me because I use the word 'awesome' a lot.
