Why do teens say like all the time!?
150341
I wish I knew why and how to stop it. My teen says "like" every other word. It gets so bad I either correct him or just stop listening. I CAN'T listen to him without counting the "likes" and it makes me so nervous I just want to scream.
943311
Because languages keep evolving, and so does the way people express themselves. I think our language/way we talk pretty much reflects our background/social status, etc. \nI think people try and find equivalent words to some already existing because the original one might feel too foreign/inappropriate to them. Teenagers in particular feel the need to make up a whole new vocabulary so that they're not related in any way to their parents/grandparents, and it makes them feel part of a group, they have something amongst them that adults can't be a part of.\nWe've all done when we were younger and it's going to keep happening, and that's the beauty of languaes. That's wny learning languages is so interesting, there is no one right answer, there are choices and you are truly fluent when you know when and where to use one or the other.
1041167
its called simlish. and they talk in it because they cant possibly simulate really indepth converations, so they created a fake language so they wouldnt be repeating things like "I ate a hotdog. Hi i'm bob..." "Mommy woohooed my headmaster!"
352106
they're saying what they want to say as in saying what really comes form their heart, but saying what they need to say as in saying what they think you'd like to here...they don't want to make the wrong move so they usually say what they think they need to say, until they are comfortable around a girl long enough that they can just say want they want to say.
942973
It depends on your perspective.  If you are a person of good family and no real threats in your life then swearing is usually common in your vocabulary. If you are a person with more crap in your life than anybody you have ever known it is also common.  I think that kids start swearing because they want to seem so cool t their friends and they want to be the one on top.  But most  people start swearing just because of people they hang out with.
549669
Yhea, they are annoying.  But if you think about it, no one really knew what they were doing when they were a tween or teen.  At that stage in life we're all just trying things out in an attempt to find out who we are.  It drives me nuts when kids think that they're goth, emo, or punk, but then I remember all the stages that I went through, and I realize that they can pretend to be whatever they want.  Its just important to make a distinction between the real thing and teen rebellion.
747640
Normal for a teen...quit complaining!
779059
They just want to be unique and get attention. I know what you mean, it bugs me how they could name their kids such weird names!!! I feel sorry for the kids when they grow up.
114860
Yeah because then they wanna get some too!!  \nThat and those songs are stupid; what ever happened to using the English language?  Why are they just making up words now?  It let's kids think they should speak ignorantly too, just to be cool.
1130102
coz people think that they sounds coolllllll\nbut it should be stopped!!!\ni m with u, dont u worry!
1065585
It's not just teenagers, it is just a bit more intense for them.  We all care about what other people think of us - it is human nature.  The difference in teenagers and adults is that adults have become better (more practice) at hiding thier true feelings.
873493
when people say what garde are you in now? 7th? and you are in 8th grade lol and then when people say "your to young for a boyfriend!" that's annoying
857361
I dont know for sure, but I have some sort of educated guess. I think that some kids our age (when chat was first invented) started to think that typing out the entire word was getting to be tiring. Then they started to abbreviate the words by taking the 1st letter of each word. LOL would be laugh out loud, because over the years, people started to develop these into meaning no sense when translated, but so that they make sense when it was inserted with its abbreviated form. I hope u think this is an OK guess.
405484
have u always been like that??? if the answer is not then it must be a face as far as i know ur a teen so i guess it is normal on teens . the funny thing is that i don't think i ever been through that . i think i always been a very focused person . i hope u still reading lol . well  here my recommendations:\n\nyoga i hear it helps a lot and as i child my father used to wake us in the morning and make us do some postures . the funny thing about it is that he stop because we wouldn't stop laughing at one of his positions . he used to stand in front of us put his feet like two ft apart incline and then show his tongue and make a sound like ahhhhhhhh . we couldn't stop laughing .\n\nchess is a really nice board game and requires a lot of concentration if u don't know how to play it buy a book about it and learn how to play it .\n\nbuy a t-shirt it should have a message on it "i am easily distracted  distract me if u wanna get hit". if u get the oposite because people is not afarid of u and just wanna bother u take it off right in that moment lol no just don't used it again .\n\nbuy a book read it .
1041381
Well what can I say??? Every single one of us has to go through that process.  When you are a teen, you are stuck between being a kid and an adult. The best choice is the mentality of being the grown up...The problem is that teens are still children in the eyes of the adults.  Then you get the rebellion stage in which every person has to go through...Perhaps, it is the thing that makes teens to share their ideas and their behavior....So, it is the grown ups' fault that teens are seen so homogenized as a bunch of children in soon to be adults bodies
89329
Laziness, laziness, and then more laziness. Get PARENTS more involved is where it starts. Not that I am putting all the teenagers down out there, but the majority of horrible spellers and run on sentence abusers happen to be teens. I am also tired of people writing things like," WHuT cAN I do 2 Makez Him fall 4 Muh Hotnezz?" I guess that people think it's cool to write like that (or whatever), but it just shows where so many people place education and grammar in their lives. \n\n Yes, it is a growing problem, and the problem is that parents are much too lenient these days as opposed to 20 years ago. I would not have said these things 5 years ago though, so maybe there is still hope when the kids grow up.
395458
i would say it could be out of curiousity..teenagers tend to think that marriage is easy and that it's something that they could just play with when in fact, it's not! they sometimes think that it's one way of escaping from the problem that they are currently facing..