Like...we need language only to make ourselves understood. Who cares about the finer details! Just convey my thoughts!
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You know, 'the devil is in the details'. This was a brilliant article!
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I think the difference is that it was an idiom then (used a few times in a conversation), a tic now (multiple times per sentence).
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I think Jack Kerouac and his fellow beats were the first ones.
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no way, that's like when you were two?
I adore how changes become the norm, almost nebulous and kinetic. Beautiful.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Contrast the sheer beauty of speech of the best speakers, who manage without fillers.
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Calling it a tic sounds like disapproval to me. Quite right, too.
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'Like, totally man.'
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Correction: "...when I was a child, like 50 years ago." Or, "...50 years ago, like."
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I think I recall
@RichardDawkins saying he thinks "like" is an economical use of language. Succinctly indicates a comparisonThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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like, I dig.
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Annals of epithetical vivacity: "The superlatively bearded Scottish brainbox James Murray." "Redoubtable" would have covered it.
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I remember being told off for it by a teacher in the UK in about 1976.
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I remember (in the UK) 'like' being in a set with 'sort of', 'kinda', all then disapproved of as 'Americanisms'.
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