The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in BritainI live in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my house. It is always from junk food outlets, so the question arises as to which way round things are: does junk food turn you into an antisocial moron, or is it that only antisocial morons eat junk food? Could it be an unfo...

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