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There was a guy in law school who spoke like that. Up speak and "like, like, like." He was a sweetheart. Really good person. But his speech was super hard to listen to and it surprised me that someone spoke like that by the time of our level of education. It seemed juvenile and uncertain.
Holy smokes. One day a professor just stopped him cold and tore him apart for speaking like that. "Are you asking me a question sir? Or making a statement? I am going to ask you to refrain from using the word, "like". This isn't high school."
Oh I felt sorry for him. It was humiliating.
His speech did slowly change though.
Can I say that if he was a jerk I wouldn't have felt so bad for him?
Hearing CW speak is annoying as hell.
But again it is his overall affect- lack of emotion and empathy that really stood out to me.
I think once you see and hear what these folks are actually saying, annoyances like their speech affects, fade, as the reality of their defects in characters, emerge.
Your professor needed, to be honest, it's his job, it helped his career.