Do You, Uh Like, LIKE Like, Or Like, Just Like "Like"?
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The History of Like
Like had a meaning that was really useful and was able to be taken over. What they do is set up a comparison or similarity between speakers. Now, when we start to remove that like from its position in the syntax, but use it to express similarity all over the sentence rather than that one specific phrase. So you could say he's like a brother to me, becomes like he's a brother to I. It expresses that same sense of similarity, but it's a little more emphatic and it's drawing your notice to it.
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