Word Content of High Schoolers making a presentation
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THIRST!
Where’s the “Okay?”
Our class valedictorian says ‘like’ too much
so, um… like… y’know how, like, the process of um mitosis like, y’know makes like two um… made like two of those cell things from like one?
yeah… that was awesome
Sadly, this extends into college students as well… I know a kid who says “I mean…” and another who says “ing” instead of “um.” Seriously. He just says “ing.”
As soon as I saw this graph, I thought that as well.
I concur. One girl giving a conference said “like” a total of 10 times per minute. 8-minute talk. Shoot me now.
*loads rocket launcher*
I had a teacher who took off one percent of one’s presentation grade for every “umm”, “uhhh”, “like”, “you know”, or any similar filler word used. After a couple presentations, the whole class was cured. Although, there were often long pauses instead.
I had a TEACHER in college that used “umm”, “uhh” and “like” more than any person I’ve ever encountered in my entire life (probably combined). I always wanted to punch him in the face. >=(
Sent in by an embittered high school teacher, perhaps?
I got that same feeling…
I’m sorry, but I find this one offensive. I mean I am a high school student and while yes there are some people that do this, the majority of people actually have well written presentations. And those that don’t, well their grades definitely reflect that…
Aww, you’re cute. I know you don’t think this is funny now, but wait a few years. It will get funnier. Trust me.
a high school student…offended?
BAHAHAHAHHAAH!!!
ah, that was a good one. High school students are some of the more offendING people of the entire population.
It’s a joke.
Get the stick out of your butt.
Ummm, like, yanno…. what about “actually”?
I made one of those speeches this morning!
im gonna do one tomorrow…
I had to do one today. Man i should have been more prepared.
I actually sent this in after listening to my classmates projects. I am just a high school student who is tired of hearing the word “like” all the time
Um…That’s like…real true, man…it’s like…TEH ANNOYINGZ!
Oh wait, that’s like the wrong like site.
I believe this could also describe sorority girls…
Actually, the “relevant information” piece of the pie-chart is too big for sorority girls’ limits… imho
depends on which house. the girls in my house were quite articulate… our neighbors i don’t believe could read and as such resorted to the “valley girl” speech patterns.
Eww, valley girl. Like, gag me with a spoon.
I didn’t have that problem presenting in speech class. I had a stammer I had to deal with instead. It filled all the emptiness with the last syllable of the previous word being repeated involuntarily…
yeah, i do that too irl, its terrible
I find that the best way to help someone stop saying ‘um’ and ‘uh’ is to count how many times they say it throughout a presentation. Then hand it to them later.
Also works good if you’re sitting in front of/behind/next to someone who is counting someone’s ‘um’s. Makes you more wary of your filler words when you get up to actually talk.
Works WELL, not works good. >=(
Dude!! Um… That’s like… Man, I’m a teen that’s sooooo not cool! Like totally not cool!!!!
I have to take speech next semester. I fear the stupid, and the ‘ums’, and the ‘likes’.
What about “basically”, for those trying to sound smart?
I once counted 17 “like”s in a single sentence from one girl. She had great ideas, just wasn’t so confident expressing them.
Huh?
totally !!1!
You know, like I like find this like offensive as a like freshman in like high school, and i like think that i like do pretty good at like public speaking and like stuff and like presentations, especially at like universe like stuff
woah, you know when you say a word over and over it loses meaning, that just happened to me
i had to take speech in college and BSed every one of my speaches. we had a person called the “ah counter” who counted all of the ums and ah and crap like that. i never once had any. its just a matter of how well someone can handle their self in front of people. i really didnt care what the people thought of me since i knew i wasnt going to see any of them after that semster. that helps.
what´s BS?
nevermind.. consider it bs
what’s a speach?
A bad spelling of speech
Don’t forget students in any/all undergrad seminars… and some profs… I had a prof who would spit out absolute flourishes of “ums” every two minutes.
The prof I most admired never EVER left a sentence unfinished. He always knew where he was going when he started to say something. Sometimes I would lose track of his point b/c I spent so much time admiring his perfect syntax.
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Natch, I was a linguistics student.
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(rereads 1st paragraph, realizes nerd level, slinks off in shame)
A high level of nerdiness is nothing to be ashamed of.
Don’t forget “all.” Ex. “I was mean to her and she got all mad.”
lol, i see that all the time BTW
^This all is not used in that way
Umm, like, they walked on mars. oh, okay, and, like, this is a funny comic. Um. Like.
This doesn’t happen in my level classes (you know… The weird genius people who were reading at a college level at age 5… Yes, I just called myself weird), but I once had to sit in on a below-grade-level class (my teacher had to rush home, so they didn’t have any time to acquire a substitute and we were sent to different classes in the same hallway), and EVERY OTHER WORD was “like”, “umm”, or “y’know”. I almost ripped my hair out. Seriously. I believe my IQ dropped 10 points from just sitting in that classroom!
That’s the feeling I get during Health class.
While in college, I was forced to listen to countless presentations where “like” was the chosen filler. At one point, I listed to a girl in one of my English classes explain a point about a particular poem we read. I stopped counting the “likes” at 15. Because of those experiences, I now count the number of times ANYONE uses the word improperly with a resounding cringe. If you’re asking, yes, I count myself too. (hey, no one’s perfect).
(Realizes I’m as nerdy as Not Me, and slinks off to join him to discuss root words…)
lol I meant realizing haha clever comment fail