How did the word "like" infiltrate the phrasing of those under 30?

Its like really bad i agree

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Do they not realize how uneducated they sound?

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Especially for a siting member of Congress.

Blame the malls of the San Fernando Valley in the '80s.

Meh, it's always been a young persons word...

It’s the kardashians fault

From a previous post:

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“Someone says to me like, ‘Oh! Batman killed a guy!’ I’m like, ‘frick, really?’ I’m like, ‘Wake the frick up!’ That’s what I’m saying about once you’ve lost your virginity to this fricking movie and then you come and say to me something about like, ‘Oh, my superhero wouldn’t do that,’ I’m like, ‘Are you serious? I’m like down the fricking road on that.’ You know what I mean?”


“It’s a cool point of view to be like, ‘My heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn’t lie to America. My heroes didn’t embezzle money. My heroes didn’t commit any atrocities.’ I’m like, ‘That’s cool, but you’re living in a fricking dream world.’ The cool thing is like mythologically speaking, I’m 100% fine—and by the way I love more than anything Superman and Batman—but in the same way that Alan Moore was fed up with the fricking like, ‘Okay no, they do this,’ clearly this is a response. Watchmen talks about comic books in the same way that this movie talks about comic book movies, but it talked about comic books at their most—they were broken, so he was just addressing that. The thing with comic book movies is—and you know I’m a fan, I go and see them, I love ‘em…”

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Yep, Valley Girl from California in the mid-80s.

Like.......gag me with a spoon
Like .......I’m so sure
Like ........I know, right?
Like....
Like.....

My niece 26, school teacher..... says like every 5th word.

It was worse in the 90s