<p>It's a verbal filler just like "um" and "you know." It's just more common and for some reason most people associate it more closely with inarticulate people.</p>
<p>This is the reason I am taking Public Speaking next year.
I get 1/2 a credit and I get to learn how to speak.
Should be fun</p>
<p>yea, like i dont get the people who say like in their sentences. like its so annoying, why cant they just like speak normally, gosh? i like totally want to punch their face in when they like say like all the time</p>
<p>GOD, I know!</p>
<p>"-Makes up irrational argument of some sort-... ya know?"</p>
<p>I like "uh" or "um" much better than "like."</p>
<p>Guilty!! I also use "like" instead of "said." It's to the point where anyone who says, "Yah, and then she said, 'What? How could you do that?'" sounds weird.</p>
<p>"Yah, and then she was like, "What? How could you do that?" just sounds BETTER.</p>
<p>I am corrupted.</p>
<p>and she was like
and he was like
and i was like
like you know
so anyway
uhhh kinda
umm i dont know
ewwwwwwwww
thats so gross
omgah im being legit
omgah yeah!
im like so serious
ewwwww no
no way!
shutttup really?
no flippin wayy</p>
<p>I AM GUILTY.</p>
<p>I’m glad such a relevant, important thread has been bumped.</p>
<p>It’s the new “ummm” or <em>GASP</em> silence between words.</p>
<p>It’s annoying that I say it too much…like.</p>
<p>People say the word ‘just’ MANY MORE times than they do any other sentence fillers and no once ever seems to notice.</p>
<p>Count the many times you and others say and type ‘just’. You’ll be surprised that you repeat a word so much.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that I say just and still a lot.</p>
<p>But I don’t care.</p>
<p>Check this youtube video out. Some of you guys might like it. </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Football Interview Fail](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VQxIY5bwxg]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VQxIY5bwxg)</p>
<p>No one saw this video? :(</p>
<p>Oh, I did.</p>
<p>It’s HILARIOUS.</p>
<p>I’m from the MA so I use “yo” fairly often as well.</p>
<p>I try not to use like that much. I was made aware in 8th grade when our English teacher went on a sort of campaign to stop using the word like. </p>
<p>I probably use ‘uh’ and ‘um’ and variations of that more, though sometimes if someone brings the word ‘like’ to my attention I’ll start using it.</p>
<p>I don’t really say it anymore. However, in English class, we had to do 20 minute seminars, and this one guy said like 219 times. Not kidding.</p>
<p>It’s, like, part of the evolution of the English language!</p>
<p>Or devolution.</p>
<p>Progress is overrated anyway! Look what it did to the Native Americans! Go devolution!</p>