“Teen Slang: What's, like, so wrong with like?” BBC News Magazine, September, 2010 | EL Education Curriculum

Author

Denise Winterman

Description

This story by the BBC is about the use of filler words such as “like” in a conversation. According to the Pocket Fowler, fillers refer to words such as actually, you know, in fact,really, and I mean, and pause markers such as er and um, that have little or no meaning andare used to help maintain a flow, and sometimes improve sentence balance, in conversational English. “Their routine use is quite legitimate, and everyday discourse would be unnatural without them.”

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Year Published

2010

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