3/22/2005

So, Like, is "So" the new "Like"?

"For years now adults have been unable to understand the teenage wonder, the bliss, the simplistic genius of the word 'like.' The valley-girl word that made the '90s great, that replaced 'said' and signaled hyperbole or understatement was a staple of our youths. Placed by many adults on the irreverence-o-meter at the same level as gum-smacking, it continues to ruin job interviews for many college graduates even to this day. However, the times appear to be changing: the upstart of a word 'so' actually seems to be encroaching dangerously on the territory of the once ubiquitous 'like.'"

Read more in this entertaining article by Princeton undergrad, Laura Berner.