This has been bothering me.
^^^^^So you picked up on that, too!
I got this text from my older daughter yesterday. You can tell she's worked up because she didn't use any punctuation (or cap "Target"). The apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Now, if she'd thrown in a few "totally"s, I might have rebuked her for Valley-speak.
During our long train ride in Canada we had 4 young ladies sat adjacent to us, 18 or 19 years old.They were a bit giggly and a bit loud but just happy I guess.Anyway you could hear every word and I started to "tune into" the number of time they said "like".After an hour it was driving me crazy.
Its caught on here in Oz too, I like, hate it. No seriously, its worse than the Australian upward inflection at the end of sentences.https://youtu.be/KpBYnL5fAXE
My youngest, now 19, uses "literally" in literally every sentence (see what I did there?).
I just noticed that a few years ago in a Beatles book. I recall thinking—wait, I thought "grody/grotty" was a Valley Girl term! I was wrong.
George uses the term "dead grotty." That's an even better hyperbole than the Valley Girl term "grotty to the max."