Benny Blanco tells how he and Selena Gomez got together

[genbu_no_miko24]

Benny Blanco tells Kai Cenat that Selena Gomez initiated their relationship by asking him on a date first. pic.twitter.com/NaTutj0leX
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) November 20, 2024

-On a Kai Cenat stream, Benny says Selena made the first move by asking him out during a conversation via texts

Comments

[cloudsralright]

"And then she was, 'like'- and I was, 'like'- and then she was, 'like'- and I couldn't, like, believe she was like- but, then I was, 'like'- except she was, 'like'. Oh my god, I can't believe she was like- and then I just kissed her. We've been friends for ten years- no, fifteen years."

Translation

[doriiansz]

Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love is Love
- Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) August 13, 2017

[therearewords]

An absolute poet.

[puppetmon]

sorry but this comment really annoys me lol. using "like" as a discourse marker is extremely normal, particularly quotative like. as in, it's actively weird to criticize a young user of standard american english for saying "i was like" as a quotation. many of these features are particularly criticized in women, because the world is sexist, but they're actually very common and normal for both men and women and acting like it makes people less intelligent to talk in very normal ways is a fucking problem. /sociolinguist rant

[ginainabottle]

English is my second language but whenever an English speaker essentially punctuates their sentences that way and my ESL ass can come up with at least 3 different forms of saying the same thing without making excessive use of “like” I’m just going to assume the person has a very limited vocabulary. If we’re talking about someone who hasn’t had access to education/privileges, I can see the point, but a rich, public figure who perhaps should be a better communicator? Nope. I feel like normalizing stuff like that essentially validates a culture that’s already waist deep into thinking being a shallow dumbass is somehow cool.

Again, I’m speaking as someone whose mother language isn’t English, but that way of talking definitely makes the interlocutor come across as an idiot to me. I’m very open to your POV as a sociolinguist tho.

[puppetmon]

linguists are descriptivists, not prescriptivists. we describe language as it IS used, not through some arbitrary measure of how people think it SHOULD be used. what you're talking about is your own language ideology: how you judge other people based on their use of language. and sociolinguists definitely study language ideologies too. but language ideologies aren't objective facts about language. they're often very harmful, particularly against minoritized groups who get told that their language or language variety makes them "sound less intelligent" because they should be using the more standard variety. i guess my question for you is: why does "like" sound less intelligent to you? and does it change your opinion to know that it only became heavily criticized as a feature when it became associated with young women? negative language ideologies don't exist in a vacuum. they are almost always directly linked to sexism, racism, and classism. just something to consider.

[ginainabottle]

i guess my question for you is: why does "like" sound less intelligent to you? and does it change your opinion to know that it only became heavily criticized as a feature when it became associated with young women?Like I said, it just comes across as someone who doesn’t have a good vocabulary to form/develop sentences, and in a conversation that gets annoying (and boring) really fast. I can’t speak about it being criticized when associated with young women bc I never made that connection up until now and I’ve always disliked that lingo regardless of who’s speaking (we have the equivalent in Portuguese, which I can’t stand as well), but I see your point. However I think the issue is not with the language itself but with the inability to explore more ways of talking according to context. Would you talk like that during a work presentation? A funeral? I know his situation there is neither but I do find it worrying that so many people on public platforms genuinely don’t seem to give a fuck about the way they communicate, especially when

[jojito]

And he's a songwriter!
He should absolutely have a diverse vocabulary.

[cloudsralright]

Lol.

[jojito]

One of my biggest pet peeves.
Learn to speak!