MTV’s Lingering Damage Evident As Millennial Woman Inserts 15 ‘Likes’ Into One Sentence

TRACEY BENDINGER | Society | Contact

If you didn’t know Gracie McGiver was a millennial, her last 45 seconds of speech would have convinced you. Speaking to a colleague about her weekend, the 30-year-old art director somehow managed to talk non-stop without actually completing a coherent sentence.

“Yeah.. so like.. We like.. Hired like.. This like.. Boat.. and then like.. Had.. like.. These kinda like.. Make your own like… things…”

It’s believed McGiver’s colleague just stood there unblinking whilst trying to decipher what he’d just heard.

“I don’t know if it’s because I’m a 42yo man.. But that girl just said nothing.. I mean, she said words but I have no idea what she said except for ‘like’.” The confused male colleague explained to The Advocate.

“And I think there was a boat involved,” he finished.

According to a linguist at Australia’s peak linguistics body, the Australian Linguistic Society, the popularity of the word ‘like’ can be directly correlated to the popularity and availability of MTV in Australia.

“It was the late 1990s and early 2000s when families started to get Austar and other satellite TV channels”

“California was getting beamed straight into our living rooms, and at that point American culture was idealised. Now, less so. However, their language became engrained and, like, it’s a hangover we can’t shake. See what I did there?” The language nerd laughed to herself.