[RatRipper]

must have been a burned out Beatnik retreaded to a new career

he’s like nuts, man

[Telepathic Intruder]

When I hear someone using ‘like’ with every other word, I like, want to slap them. But then I’m like, he’s just like, a product of our dumbed-down entertainment-driven culture. Did you see what I did there? I used a double-like. A like within a like, as it were. I’m crazy!

[rightwingcrazy]

So he’s like “it’s OK to use ‘like’ whenever you want”, and I’m totally like “no way, dude!”, you know?

[Larry Lucido]

As if!

[KarlInOhio]

Permission to use "like" from a linguist? That's crossing the line into prescriptivism, which is the ultimate heresy in the world of mondern linguists.

[Flag_This]

Is it the new, new N-word now?

[Gaffer]

So. I’m just guessing here, but I’m thinking this twit has an application into some UC college out in California for a teaching job.

For a liberal, you got to work it honey!, with all you got for all you can with all you know. Even if it IS horsesh!t.

You gotta stand up there and play it like you mean it. Dizzie Gillespie, Fats, or Louie! Work it like you stole it!

[ThomasThomas]

I like, like

[re_nortex]

The illiterate Hottentot hussein (he of the White Hut) can scarcely utter a pair of words without stringing a few “like” and “uhhs” to join them. Compare that to President Ronald Reagan who had a precise, crisp manner of speaking using only standard English, completely free of ghetto thug vocabulary.

[chajin]

[Jacquerie]

A couple years ago the daughter of a college classmate stayed with us for a couple days. She had just graduated from St. Johns in Annapolis, a thoroughly Trivium oriented liberal arts college.

I was very disappointed with her overuse and misuse of ‘like’.

[PoloSec]

Another overused word of late “Actually”...

He is not just wrong; he is “like actually wrong”.

[vpintheak]

“Like” is the new “Uh, or Um”. As annoying as it is.
I had some interesting conversations with a linguits some years ago and he was theorizing the the way we spell words will change over time. So many words are spelled the way they are because they are based on the old latin words, and they will fade away.
Think about it, why is “Through” spelled that way? I work in CAD and we use “THRU” all the time. Just a simple example, but our texting culture will be changing things folks!

[ßuddaßudd]

who me?

[doug from upland]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72HSptSMYE

[grobdriver]

This use of “like” allows us to introduce not just what we said or thought, but how

Another blithering idiot.

I guaran-damn-tee you that if you speak this way at a job interview, you will be second (or more) runner up against someone who can, and does, speak standard English.

[Jack Hammer]

Modern linguistics is funny like that.

Thanks mostly to Chomsky, any half-witted dialect is now taken to be as ‘good’ as Shakespeare.

[Political Junkie Too]

When I was younger, the linguistic crutch was "you know..."

People would, you know, insert it in, you know, the middle of sentences.

-PJ

[katana]

I am over 45 and I never comment or criticize anyone who intersperses “like” or even “you know” into their speech. I just quietly reduce my estimate of their intelligence.

[Bratch]