Wonder if the American usage has spread through films/books? A doo run-run-run, a doo run-run
Today English is much more about exaggeration - hence 'seriously, 'so', 'totally', etc.
This makes machine translation hard because you don't just have to parse the words, you have to parse that specific kind of formation, and also know something about the class and age of the person speaking.
This is where machine translation goes wrong - a lot of communication is at least as much about role play with canned phrases and constructions as about grammar.
For spoken language you can't make sense of the meaning just from the grammar rules on their own. You need to know the role play context and also have a library of current constructions.
Written language is simpler because it's more formal and structured, but you can still fall over some of the wackier constructions that turn up.
I thought it was normal that one could have fun with language. It wasn't till high school that I found it necessary to restrict the fun a bit. But that 'fun with language' of my childhood remains a major component of my writing today, though I find it harder in Finnish because you can't mistreat it in the same way and still expect to make sense. You can't be me, I'm taken
