Are you like “I don’t, like, LIKE like ‘like’”?

Posted on February 20, 2018 | 1 Comment

My latest article for The Week is about a word almost everyone loves to hate – and yet we all still seem to like using it:

What’s not to like about ‘like’?

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One response to “Are you like “I don’t, like, LIKE like ‘like’”?”

  1. Don's avatar Don | February 21, 2018 at 10:41 am | Reply

    In the late 90’s I exercised my pique at a female student who couldn’t stop using like during our English I class, so I gave her a detention. Needless to say, she stopped liking me.

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