Joffe owes me a keyboard... Alienating the proletariat?
People assume people who can't speak the language without slang or disfluencies to be unintelligent because they SOUND unintelligent.
Which sounds better to you: "I had, like, for like, lunch, some, like, chicken. OR "I had some chicken for lunch."
Of course anyone with a grasp of the language is going to naturally assume someone who can't express an idea without using slang or "like" is a gibbering idiot because that's exactly what they appear to be.
People assume people who can't speak the language without slang or disfluencies to be unintelligent because they SOUND unintelligent.
Which sounds better to you:
"I had, like, for like, lunch, some, like, chicken.
OR
"I had some chicken for lunch."
Of course anyone with a grasp of the language is going to naturally assume someone who can't express an idea without using slang or "like" is a gibbering idiot because that's exactly what they appear to be.