Wow...there are a ton of these. Millennial speech patters are very annoying.
- Beginning sentences with "so"
- Overuse/misuse of the word "literally"
- Saying "I feel like" when you really mean "I think" (e.g., "I feel like I have eaten at this restaurant before"). Said as if everything is a feeling, not a thought.
- Stupid shortened versions of words, like "fam," "preggo/preggers," "bae," "cray," etc.
- Uptalk (voice rises at the end of every sentence as if you are asking a question, even if it isn't a question). This is an absolute epidemic among millennials. I think you are in the minority if you
don't do this.
- Overuse of "kind of" or "sort of." There are situations where it is appropriate, but many overuse it to the point where apparently nothing ever actually is a certain thing; it only "kind of" or "sort of" is.
- Overuse of "like." This one has been around forever, and I don't mind it here and there, but a lot of young people use it 4 times in every sentence.
- Vocal fry (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAQsnAVoMw)
- Business buzzwords/cliches that only exist to make you sound smarter, or make something simple seem complicated ("leverage" instead of "use," "utilize" instead of "use," describing an old system, program, or way of doing something as "legacy")
- "Going forward"