Do We Even Need Adjectives Anymore?

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miss any! So with that said let's get on with the video! Now what a strange title we have for this

video, how strange, how intriguing, how weird... wait a minute I just used three adjectives and

I just told you that native speakers do not use adjectives anymore! My goodness,

what is happening? Smashing English, you do not know what you're talking about, leave,

get out, never teach English again. But hold on! I have a point. Now if you're learning English,

I hope you are listening to lots and lots of native speakers speaking English because

obviously this is a great way to practice your listening, your vocabulary, everything. Now if

you are listening to people under the age of 35 you might have noticed a bit of a trend happening,

it's probably easier if I just give you some examples. And then he came to my work and I was

like 'what are you doing?' No honestly I saw that film and I was like 'I can't, I'm too scared.' And

then she told me she was pregnant and I was like 'what?' And he walked up to me and he was like

'oh, what are you doing?' And she was like 'ah!' And he was like 'get out!' And I was like 'huh?'

And she was like 'yeah!' Are you noticing a pattern? Yes, in the last 20 years or so,

the younger generations have developed a way of speaking that sometimes neglects adjectives,

not always but sometimes. So for example instead of saying, 'I saw the film and I was terrified,'

you might hear people saying, 'I saw the film and I was like, 'oh my God, this is so scary.'

Or instead of saying they were baffled, confused, you might hear, 'they were like, 'huh?' Ao what

is this? Okay so we have the subject and then whatever version of 'to be' works, so if it's

past tense it will be was or were if it's present tense it will be is, am, are and then it's almost

like you make little speech marks and you say what you were thinking, what you were feeling

rather than the adjective so if you are feeling like you want to say, 'what?' You say that,

so you go, 'I was like, 'what?' And this is huge, I hear this all the time, I do it all the time,

when I'm talking to people I don't say and I was really confused I say and I was like

'huh?' If you listen out for it, you will hear it everywhere, especially with native speakers.

Why is this happening? I don't know. Maybe people's vocabularies are getting smaller, maybe

people are more excited to tell the emotion of a story so they want to recreate what happened

or they want to act out how they felt at the time to make the story more exciting,

I don't know. Maybe it's Emoji's fault! You know, maybe we are so used to just putting an

emoji instead of saying the adjective of how we're feeling, so maybe now we don't know how to express

that when we're speaking, so instead of saying I was flabbergasted, I was shocked we go, 'and I was

like, 'oh', you know? We act it out, we're like performing all the time, it's really interesting

to see the evolution and to see how this is changing. If you are learning English, do you

need to do this to sound like a native speaker? And the answer is no, you don't need to adopt this

way of speaking, it's very casual, it's usually heard amongst the younger generations so if you

are a 60 year old man, don't worry about it, you know? You don't need to start talking like this,

but just be ready to hear it and be ready to understand what that means and what they're