Like
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The word like used to be traditionally used as a adjective, noun, verb, or a conjunction, but nowadays the word is strictly used as an adverb or quotative. This is because over the past 2 decades teenagers have turned this into their favorite word. Highschoolers, and college students nowadays are so brain-damaged by MTV, that they absolutely cannot say a single sentence without the insertion of at least 3 uses of the word "Like". In fact it is overused by teenagers in speaking just as often as they overuse commas in their writing.
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"tl;dr Like, today, I want to the mall, to like.. go shopping, and like saw some totally awesome shoes, but they were like, soooo expensive. But then like, I got a call on my cell, and like it was my boyfriend, and he was like "hey, whats, like going on"? and I was like, "okay, but I need like, some more money" and you know what he like said? he said SURE! I was like, so exited! Like Oh my god! So he came to the mall, and like hugged me and like, got the like credit card out and like used it to by the like shoes, and the card was like maxed out, and I was like soooooo embarrassed! and like I was standing there like crying like a baby like you know like, like.. you know like like like like like..like.. like like likelikelikelikelike]]
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