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by oska
2554 days ago
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> However, "Like, uh, their purpose." is grammatically and semantically meaningless. Compare to "Like, well, their purpose". I don't expect you'd have any problem with the word 'well' in that sentence but it serves pretty much the same semantic function as the 'uh'. |
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"Scientists still have a lot to understand about these songs, including their purpose" is a much better sentence.
The full stop in the article makes it sound like it's transcribing a speaker that didn't know what words to say next and made an unintentional pause. Or it's seeking to draw attention to how little scientists know in a rather flippant way. Like, totally disrespectful.
Maybe that's what resonates with the target readership, but for the rest of us it just sounds like a teenager, and I for one don't model my speech after teenagers