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    Quote Originally Posted by Puffin View Post
    What these kids don't realise is that their conversations, when analysed are meaningless.

    Bollocks. It looks like despite sounding ridiculous it is regarded as a proper usage!!!

    As an adverb
    Like can be used as an adverb meaning "nearly" or to indicate that the phrase in which it appears is to be taken metaphorically or as a hyperbole. Examples:

    I, like, died!
    They, like, hate you!
    [edit] As a quotative
    Like is sometimes used as a quotative to introduce a quotation or impersonation. In this usage, like functions in conjunction with a verb, generally be (but also say, think, etc.), as in the following examples:

    She was like, "oh my gosh no way!"
    He was like, "I'll be there in five minutes."
    He was like "you need to leave the room right now!"
    Like can also be used to paraphrase an implicitly unspoken idea or sentiment:

    I was like, "who do they think they are?"
    It is also sometimes used to introduce non-verbal mimetic performances, e.g., facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement, as well as sounds and noises:

    I was like [speaker rolls eyes].
    The car was like, "Vroom"
    But aren't they being, like, ironic?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    But aren't they being, like, ironic?
    That's so gay.

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    Meh.
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    Y'know worra mean, like, la?

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    That I do moy luvverrr, that I do.

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    isn't it though! that is well good and everyfink! innitt.
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    My kids are as guilty as any.
    The interesting thing is that the same word was often misused when i was young. But this time by the older generation.
    It was common to hear country folk say "thats all right like isn't it".

    Or if they were real broad Cheshire.
    "eee thats oreet like intit."

    Or if they were very broad Cheshire.........."eee thats oreet like innerit"

    This generation has taken the same word and moved it to a different part of the sentence.
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    Suffolk people seem to be really bad with double-negatives "you don't do nothing you don't" etc.

    Gets on my nerves sometimes. Sorry, I'll translate that for any youngsters out there "like, well bad. isn't it."
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    "Yea, like blood I was lying in bed and she says to me, you'd better get up, so I say's like, you're well vexing me and shit"

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