Do you remember that classic moment of history when, during one of the earliest airings of the new technology that delivered ‘talking movies’ to the world, via (amongst other early ‘talkies’) the 1930 film Blue Angel, when Marlene Dietrich began speaking, one of the film critics in the audience uttered the words ‘Marlene speaks!’?
My, how things have progressed since then.
In nearly 80 years we have gone from a German actress speaking almost perfect English – a language she didn’t understand at the time, having learned her words phonetically – to this:
Press the play button and weep – 40s youtube clip…
Wow! Eloquent or what? She has perfected “like”, no doubt about it. Perhaps she could use “twat” for her next favourite word?
If this was, like, Facebook I could, like, click on the Like button. 😉
What’s not to like?
In some circles, “like” is being replaced with “I’m all . . .” or “He/she goes. . .”
As in:
“And I was all, dude, I don’t use half of the features of almost everything I own.
He goes, Heather, imagine that I am an award-winning French chef.
Don’t like.
She’s like a complete like fucking halfwit who should be like taken off the like airwaves until she’s learned to like speak in proper sentences. Numpty.
I saw the programme from which that was taken. It was hard viewing. Fearne Cotton proved herself to be patient, forgiving, quietly empathic, whilst the Peaches girl came across as a bit of a lemon, or even a bitter lemon… an altogether lost girl. A scene of her visiting ‘the office’ (Vogue or some such), emphasised her rootlessness and sense of aimless, fruitless wandering.
Bit grim like.
Hi Shane, thanks for the comment. Your defence of Fearne Cotton took some swallowing, but I’ve decided to go with you because I didn’t watch the prog in the first place. Mind you, I don’t like Ms Cotton much anyway… Totally agree with you about La Geldof though!