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.
6 posted on 05/08/2015 1:57:45 PM PDT by KarlInOhio
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Of the English speaking countries out there... is this phenomenon of the overuse of the word ‘like’ purely an American thing? Or is it something that has caught on in the English-speaking world?
14 posted on 05/08/2015 2:09:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind