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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?
Modern Wisdom
The Different Uses of Like
The word like is used as a discourse marker or a quoted a verb so those would be things such as I'm gonna have to watch my life use here like he goes to school. There are at least three if not more different very legitimate uses of like that and they show up when speakers trying to do some sort of subjective approximation estimation for example. The ones that are less accepted are like as a conjunction so if you say something like I feel like or it seems like or he pretends like those types of likes even though we all use those are actually found upon by the grammar mavens. Age-wise older speakers tend not to use them but younger speakers people under 40 tend to use
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