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Oh wow! Fantastic post! ALL the way through my read of it, I was like, wow, great, I love this! And all of those exclamation marks! I mean, brilliant! Everything's better with exclamation marks, don't you think?!!!!! THE MORE, THE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Seriously, though, this way of telling a story is something I come across far more often than my everyday brain can cope with - bravo, Terry, for this highly enjoyable and very relatable post.

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Aug 8·edited Aug 8Author

Chortle! Thanks, Rebecca, I couldn't of put it better myself!!!!! (And, yes, the 'of' was, like, deliberate.)  🤣

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🫣 shudders

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Sorry 😞

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Oh lord, that could be my daughter in law. It isn't, of course, because there's nowhere near enough swearing (you wouldn't have the space), and as has been mentioned, not enough 'OMG' or 'like', innit? The other thing I notice as becoming more prevalent is 'I know, right?' as a reply to ANYTHING - 'Would you like a cup of tea?' 'Yeah, I know, right?' 'Eh?'...

But given we always tidy up speech so that it's actually readable, this is as spot on as you can get. I know, right?

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LOL. I know, right?

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🤣🤔

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Perfect, Terry. Do you remember Matt Lucas’ fictional character Vicky Pollard ? Inspired, I believe from listening to teenagers while travelling on London buses. Very exaggerated (I hope !) but funny.

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Thanks, Maureen. I did have in my mind yes but, no but! It sounds like that doesn't it? I didn't know teen girls were the inspiration. Thanks! 😂

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Somedays a bump on the noggin is like a hole in the pants. Change falls out as if a simile is needed and a rattled mind is an exclamation point taken for granted. Glad you survived.

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Thanks.

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Absolutely one of your best versions, Lord Terry. This monologue sounds EXACTLY like my hairdresser, who never takes a breath the entire time I am in the chair. My only suggestions would be to go back in there and add "its like... or " I'm like" a few more times. And about thirty more exclamation points - especially multiple exclamation points !!! And begin with " Hi, guys!!"

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😂 Thanks, Sharron. Yes, a few more likes and exclamations would have improved it, no doubt!

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

I'm just teasing.

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I am like, yeah i know!! But I'm like, i agree with you?!!!

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This is getting silly. I blame C.L.Steiner

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'This is getting silly.' 😂😂😂

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Haha!! This is perfect! It read like many of my co-workers talk. 😁 Like, sort of like so funny, right?😂

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🤣 thanks, Mary!

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OMG! Here in the States? The people who talk like that? End every sentence and even some fragments as if they were interrogatives?

I’m even hearing it from my seven-year-old granddaughter?

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

I hate this this questioning inflection as well. Do you think it may be localized, though? eg Southern California, San Fernando Valley,? I used to hear it all the time in central North Dakota! And after a week there, I started mimicking it myself... urgh.

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We get it in England now. I think it makes the speaker sound like a completely clueless and unassertive imbecile.

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Ditto.

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Thanks Sharron. You don't think I'm being too judgemental then?

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Not at all.

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😃

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Actually, that is another experiment I had lined up? I didn't think, I should have incorporated it into this one? I am, like, gutted? 🤣

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Yes? Everything's a question? 😁 SO many talk like, like ya know, like for real?

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And in the UK too, I mean too?

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Oy vey! I’m sorry I brought it up! Innit?

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Me too? 😂

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Like, I mean, sorta, kinda, like, for real? Right? Yeah, no?

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I like totally agree? You nailed it?

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Like, wha? Right?

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🤣

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Yep. We all know someone like this. The (presumably deliberate?) spelling mistakes add to the sense of ‘prattling’. Nicely done.

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Thanks Beth. Spelling mistakes: I did consider leaving them in for precisely the reason you said, but felt embarrassed so I corrected them 😅

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Ooooohhhh. ‘Own them’!! Grin. All cool. 😎

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😂 I should have really.

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

If you want to sound dumber, spell probably as "prollie". And leave out the word "of" with because, eg We prollie won't go because the bad weather..."

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🤣🤣

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

Haha, very effective, Terry. I can hear it in my head, someone rattling this off rapidly to a friend who may or may not be actually listening!

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Thanks Nathan 😊. That's exactly the effect I was aiming for!

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Aug 4Liked by Terry Freedman

You succeeded ! Beautiful.

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Thanks Sharron! 😁

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