For the kids, stop saying ‘you know’.
“For the kids, stop saying ‘you know’.”
My youngest daughter when talking to me would always say “You Know”. After about 6 times of her saying that I would holler at her and say, “NO I DON’T KNOW! so spit it out as to what I should know.
It's being used as a comma, instead of grunting "uhhh". What will they do if it's eliminated, real punctuation? Not likely.