I have now become hyper-aware of how often I use that phrase
Are there any phrases that people have told you you overuse or are characteristic of how you talk?
Everyone has a tick they say a lot.
I tend to to say “You know what I mean?” A lot
Insert piss joke
I use “like” and like a lot, almost like a California girl.
When I was a teenager our family moved from Northern to Southern California. My mom was a good mom and chill about most things but she really didn’t like the change in my speech. We lived in LA and like kids do - I started speaking like the locals. She particularly didn’t like my overuse of “like” and how my I turned statements into questions? It seemed I used question marks all time? And I didn’t even really realize I - like - used “like” all the time?
At that time she made me kind of mad. But in the end I appreciated it? Oops. Bad habits can come back so quickly.
I don’t know what I have for my vocal speech, but when I type I tend to add extra thoughts in parentheses a lot. I also probably stutter a lot, my thoughts tend to move faster than my mouth can speak.
I use a ton of analogies, so I probably say “that would be like…”, “that would be equivalent to…”, or “that is analogous to…” a lot.
