The use of like as a place holder when one cannot articulate a concept or has no concept int he first place traces back at least to the Fifytes when the Beat fgeneration used it in phrases such as "Like3, groovy, man -- this place is like, Flipsville!! Ya dig, daddio?"

So it's got, like, tradition behind it anyway, man. It's nopt like, just, whatever -- it's TRADTIONAL, man!! It's from, like, Historyville, dude!


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