Help! :gonk:

[coolrider102030]

When im writing essays i have great grammer and spelling but when im explaining something to the class i use the word "Like" alot

Example: When the plant cells dont get the energy they need, they like die and then be used as fertilizer for like other plants...


Someone help?
any suggestions on how to kick this nasty habbet?
gonk  

[dark_elf]

Practice outload infront of your parents or friends or even just in your room alone. When you catch yourself saying like, pinch your hand to remind yourself not to do that.
Sorry if this did diddly to help you. sweatdrop  

[Boxley Fizzlerocket]

dark_elf

Practice outload infront of your parents or friends or even just in your room alone. When you catch yourself saying like, pinch your hand to remind yourself not to do that.
Sorry if this did diddly to help you. sweatdrop

Yeah.

I did something like that to overcome the habit. I only really noticed the problem when I recorded a few friends and myself talking gonk  

[coolcheese]

Think about what you are going to say before saying it, so say it in your head first, and then say it out loud. Easier said than done, I know. sweatdrop  

[dark_elf]

Boxley Fizzlerocket

dark_elf

Practice outload infront of your parents or friends or even just in your room alone. When you catch yourself saying like, pinch your hand to remind yourself not to do that.
Sorry if this did diddly to help you. sweatdrop

Yeah.

I did something like that to overcome the habit. I only really noticed the problem when I recorded a few friends and myself talking gonk

Thats a good idea too. By the way, sweet avi. whee  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

I do that all the time. It's so much easier to type than to talk. The only thing I can do is catch myself doing it and try not to do it in the future, at which I invariably fail. Sorry this isn't more optimistic.  

[[Joan De Arc]]

Well, I do also say like a lot on oral reports, but I guess you jsut got to remind yourself not to say it so much..It's how I did it. XD  

[[-]Battery[+]]

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And you could try writing sentences and if you put 'like' in them, punish yourself. Or write slowly and when you'e about to write 'like', stop and think of what will come after it, then write that word down. you could write 'like' on a scrap piece of paper so that you can still write it but not in the essay.  

[Captain Purpleheart]

That happens to me as well. I think I might have said like so many times in this one paper I was reading.
I'd agree with the practice reading it idea. I force myself to start the whole thing over if I say like.