Speakers who use “like” are not generally stupid or thoughtless. Research suggests that they employ it more with friends and in settings where they feel comfortable
. They deal with even more of it than do most people. The average parent might see their children grow out of thehabit, but university lecturers have a constantly refreshed supply of 18-year-olds. Making a virtue of necessity, they have looked at the supposedly vacuous word in depth. Irritating or not, they have concluded,As an expression of wonderment, sometimes referred to as “beatnik like”, it is found in decades-old exclamations such as “Like, wow, man.
Already in 1983, Lawrence Schourup, a linguist, wrapped these nuances together to suggest drily that “is used to express a possible unspecified minor nonequivalence of what is said and what is meant.”’s functions go wider than signalling uncertainty; a later analysis by Muffy Siegel, now of the University of Pennsylvania, noted that only in some cases can “about” or “approximately” be swapped in for “like”.
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