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Originally Posted by
ari.seoul 
a verbalized pause and lack of vocab ...
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Originally Posted by
Britalian It's useless filler. These people feel, if they are even conscious that they are doing it, that a silent pause would be out of place.
These meaningless filler phrases have been a bugbear of mine for some, like, years, y'know?
Also, it kind've, suggests a lack of confidence? In what they're, like, saying? Like the infuriating upspeak/AQI so frequent with the young, and not so, like? It's kind've a fucking annoyance. Even well-educated and intelligent people can be heard using these phrases.
These sound about right.
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SField I once told my old girlfriend's younger sister that I counted how many times she said 'like' during our short conversation and it was about 50 times. She cried. This was at the table for thanksgiving dinner. Go SField.
Highlarious
BTW "like" isn't just restricted to those under 25. I've seen a few "older" people (say 35) use it too; rare but it has happened.
