Please Stop Punctuating Your Writing With the Word "Like," As to Give it a Casual, Cavalier, Laid-Back Air

This is fucking irritating when girls who should know better do it incessantly in conversation, and even worse when it actually sees print as a conscious stylistic decision to lend your work a "conversational" quality.

Almost invariably you're referring to something that was not "like" something else, but something that in fact is or was.

I'm not a big stickler when it comes to proper English, but this is just precious beyond belief. What are you, Angela fucking Chase?



"I know that everything is futile when the house is burning. But I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning."

--Herr Karl Kraus