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I thought that perhaps the "Vicki" and "I'm like" connection indicated somebody who spent time around teenagers.

Personally, I think teaching Latin would be a great thing to do. It's not well paid, though. If I ever win the Lottery, I plan to quit what I'm doing now and start teaching Latin. But not until I win the Lottery.

I thought that perhaps the "Vicki" and "I'm like" connection indicated somebody who spent time around teenagers.

It is mostly a teenage-girl phenomenon, and, within that, mostly a teenage-girl-talking-to-other-teenage-girls phenomenon.

We have a 19-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old daughter at home. When the 19-year-old is talking freely with her friends, she cannot go more than a few sentences without falling into the "I'm like"/"And she's like" pattern for reported speech or thought. I have tried to caution the 7-year-old not to use "I'm like," but I'm afraid she has started picking it up in the last year from her friends. Whatever. :-)

Personally, I think teaching Latin would be a great thing to do.

I agree. My Latin teacher was my favorite teacher in high school, and my Latin and Greek professor in college was my favorite teacher there.

Personally, I think teaching Latin would be a great thing to do

The most important classes I took in high school were Latin and Greek--it taught me how what I say means what it says (got that?).
In essence, I think of English in terms of Latin and Greek syntax, because English syntax is so amorphous. Who ever learned about the optative or the pluperfect subjunctive in an English Class? And yet, we do, indeed, speak in ways that make sense when thought of in terms of the syntax of Latin and Greek.