The Discourse Particle Is the Most Useful Part of Speech

The discourse particle, like the one that comes in like the mid point of a sentence, is used more by men than women. Research suggests people who say like may actually be more intelligent than those that don't. Catherine d kinsler says that taking one to task for the way they speak is one of the last societaly accepted ways to exercise our prejudices. As fort says, i'm 55 and most likely to use  discourse markers such as 'like' And i'm a judgy thing, so it's really not helpful That was why do people like so much? By mark wilson, read by mark bele, on this week's guardian podcast at 10pm tonight