Travelling up to Beirut - sorry, London - earlier this week, I listened to Fi Glover's excellent new radio programme, Generations Apart. Lovely stuff about people born in 1990 who Glover will follow over the next three years.
There was a guy who was a former drug addict, who had been convicted of assaulting his father - he kicked him in the head - but who came over pretty well. Some of the interview was quite disturbing, but at least he was lucid. However, the next woman was at, like, Cambridge and described as being, like, one of the most gifted students of her, like, generation. Apparently she's also a playwright, which I guess means she, like, writes plays. I bet her dialogue is, like, annoying. She may be gifted, but she'll find it difficult to, like, get a job unless she smartens her act up.
Why do people adopt the omniword 'like', and what does it mean? Is it just an infantile habit like smoking or farting in public, or do they think it makes them sound cool? The reality is that it's profoundly stupid and deeply irritating - the hope is that it's just a fad and will, like, pass in the fullness of time.
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