REPLACING VIRTUAL ‘LIKE’

or GIVE ME BACK ‘REALLY’

How do we regain verbal intent in message, and omit the disconnected verbiage?

Correction is simple and requires 2 basic steps.

1 AWARENESS

Awareness is the first step in any process of change.

Recording the person’s spontaneous talk is the most reliable speech sample. Another practical option is to conduct a conversation and point out and count the ‘filler words’ as they occur.

Sensory Awareness:

Listening to speech recording or becoming conscious of the frequency of ‘like’ usage during conversation will promote understanding and motivate the speaker to change.

2 INSTRUCTIONS for SPEECH:

Person seeking change needs to be reminded daily of the proper use of the word ‘like’ as a verb or preposition in examples.

It is necessary to instruct to omit ‘like’ word in all other instances.

Repetition – to increase intent and establish a correct usage.

Person needs to repeat phrase used improperly with ‘like’ and repeat the very same phrase without saying ‘like’.

Self monitoring:

Repeat the process of listening and consciously re-phrase message.

Assign specific interaction ( converse with friend) reduce rate, and consciously omit the word ‘like’.

Last tip:

Substitution: Imagine saying the same sentence using the word ‘REALLY’.

Try and see.