Yeah, kind of like that, Kat. ;-) I think that's a Valley Girl from the 80s, right? She still uses the word "says" instead of replacing it with "he's, like" or "she's, like". The thing with devolution is that it can always find a way of going one notch further down as time goes by.

I must mention, however, to be fair, that the inarticulate style of dialogue adopted by numerous "freaks" in the late 60s through early 70s was equally moronic. Let's be evenhanded about this, eh? ;-) A perusal of some of the hippie comic books of the time will provide some insight into the sillier aspects of the youth culture of that era.

I was desperately in love at that time with a girl who used the word "like" a lot when she didn't need to. If I was back there now, knowing what I know now, I'm afraid I would probably find her quite annoying. She was crazy about Dylan and so was I. That helped.