History Main / LikeIsLikeAComma

->''I know it's so, like, hard, but you got to keep, like, like, going! You gotta win this for, like, like, like, like, the both of us!''
-->-- '''Match''', ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None"

* ''WebVideo/DougDoug'' uses this a lot, as he found out where he attempted a challenge where he tries to beat ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' in Classic Mode, but every time he says the name of one of the characters, he dies. It doesn't take long for him to realize that "like" happens to include the name [[Franchise/FireEmblem Ike]] in it.

** "Like" has been featured in ESL textbooks as an example of slang - considering the many different meanings "like" can have, it makes sense to teach it even if it's linguistically undesirable.

Despite being [[TheNewRockAndRoll now widely used in standard English]], it's also OlderThanTheyThink: the oldest quote cited for this sense in the Oxford English Dictionary comes from ''1778''.[[note]]in F. Burney's ''Evelina'': "Father grew quite uneasy, like, for fear of his Lordship's taking offence."[[/note]] Screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond (who was born in 1920) and director Billy Wilder (born in 1906) had Creator/MarilynMonroe use the expression in the 'hedge' sense above in their 1959 period comedy ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.

* For French, the exact equivalent would be "Genre". This world initially meant "kind of" but by language abuse became the equivalent of "Comme".

* Ini Miney talks like this in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''. Though later it's revealed that [[spoiler:she's doing it on purpose]]. Matt Engarde also uses it to a lesser degree. [[spoiler:Is he acting too? Oh, ''is he ever''...]]

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Like Likes]]. Or the [[Website/{{Facebook}} Like button]].

* Donna from ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'' speaks like this.

* '[[RealisticDictionisUnrealistic Fillers]]', if you don't wanna use, like, "um…" or "er…".

[[caption-width-right:193:There’s a difference. [[SeriousBusiness Get it right]].]]

-->-- '''Match''', ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland''

* Chechen dictator Main/RamzanKadyrov liberally peppers his speech, don, with the literal Chechen equivalent, don, to the extent that a Kadyrov impersonation, don, squarely relies on this and [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved goats]], don. Also, make sure to speak with [[Main/TheStoner]]'s voice, don, like this, don: https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1531917483485151232

* Chechen dictator Main/RamzanKadyrov liberally peppers his speech, don, with the literal Chechen equivalent, don, to the extent that a Kadyrov impersonation, don, squarely relies on this and [[Main/BestialityIsDepraved goats]], don.

* Cranked to the max in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' when some of Numbuh 3's friends ask her [[EveryoneCanSeeIt whether she likes Numbuh 4]], and she responds, "You mean, like... '''''[[UpToEleven like]]''''' ''[[UpToEleven like]]'' [[UpToEleven like, like?.. like?]]"

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* Shirley the Loon from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', like, regularly talks like this, or some junk.