David Collins

You Speaka My Language? - Really enjoyed this post, Rebecca. Maybe it's because I can totally identify with it. I've always been fascinated by how much teenage language can't survive without throwing in the phrase "and stuff" or the word "like". I'm always baffled by the statement: "It was, like, really good." Was it good? Or was it just like it was good? Another uquitious word is, of course, the indepensable "thingy". I was in the car yesterday, when one of my friends' kids told about how at school she needed a "code thingy". When her dad tried to qualify this with "Oh, you mean a PIN number for your locker?", her reply was, "No, a code thingy!" :-) - David.