Wither English, and stuff

Like a lot of folks (me included), Clark Whelton mourns the the decline and fall of American English. To wit, a woman describes a baby squirrel that she had found in her yard: “And he was like, you know, ‘Helloooo, what are you looking at?’ and stuff, and I’m like, you know, ‘Can I, like, pick you up?,’ and he goes, like, ‘Brrrp brrrp brrrp,’ and I’m like, you know, ‘Whoa, that is so wow!’ ” As the woman rambled on, Whelton notes, "she never said anything specific about her encounter with the squirrel." Read the rest of his witty lament here.