[kevslisababy]

When I hear someone speaking and constantly sprinkling in the “like” word, I find myself not listening to what they are saying, but counting how many times they use “like”....a pet peeve of mine.

[cuban leaf]

—When I hear someone speaking and constantly sprinkling in the “like” word, I find myself not listening to what they are saying, but counting how many times they use “like”....a pet peeve of mine.—

Same here. But a long time annoyance of mine is “you know”. And “so he goes...then I go...”.

[HIDEK6]

When I hear someone speaking and constantly sprinkling in the “like” word, I find myself not listening to what they are saying, but counting how many times they use “like”....a pet peeve of mine.

And what about the ubiquitous use of "sort of" and "kind of?"