Oh, now that's TERRIBLE of you... TERRIBLE!
(Almost as terrible as the parodies I myself have done of that same phenom before... which parodies I *will not* reproduce here....)
I don't know, Xgirl. It's probably akin to the Jacobean idiom some people slip into in certain church settings....
Dan
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I believe it's rooted in an uneasy relationship with God-as-Father, reflecting a pervasive dishonesty in the association with their own parents. I base this conclusion on my children's use of "just," either in petitions, "Could I just check my messages on the computer for a few minutes?" or in excuses, "I was just trying to see if Tom could really breathe underwater." Take it or leave it :-).
It's even worse than that here in California. When people pray, they punctuate every sentence with "just". When they speak to other people, they randomly sprinkle "like" into everything, often quite liberally.
"I was like so bummed when she didn't call, and so I was like 'Why didn't you call?' and she was like 'As if, like I'd really want to call you!'".