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6	->''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!''
7	-->-- '''Match''', ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'', "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None"
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9	This is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle like]] when characters, like, constantly throw the word "like" into their sentences. [[ValleyGirl Frequently used by like, teenage girl characters who are, like, um, a little dim]]? And every sentence ends with, like, an upwards inflection? Usage doesn't seem to be limited to, like, specific character types, although it does seem to be used more by girls than, like, boys. Can get into, like, TotallyRadical territory if, like, this character trait is used, like, randomly out of place.
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11	Right, that's enough of that… hopefully you can see how unclear and annoying that can make dialogue! This trope definitely needs to be used sparingly, unless you really want to make a character TheScrappy.
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13	The word "like" can be used in many ways;
14	* Adverbs, when it can mean 'nearly' or 'about' -- "She's only, like, 5 miles away", or 'for example' -- "You could catch, like, herpes".
15	* Quotatives, when you wish to quote another character -- "she was like, 'Like is totally a quotative!'"
16	* 'Hedges', when you want to show you don't quite mean what you're saying literally, but as simile or hyperbole -- "I, like, died".
17	* '[[RealisticDictionisUnrealistic Fillers]]', if you don't wanna use, like, "um..." or "er...".
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19	Another place like turns up is in [[UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} Welsh]] speech. LeetLingo frequently uses "liek" as a deliberate typo.
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21	Creator/DaveBarry once pointed out that one of the reasons young people may talk like this could be to make sure the person they're talking to is paying attention to them.
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23	This is, like, TruthInTelevision, as many parents will gripe about this trope -- although people ''will'' use it in TotallyRadical ways that don't match any actual teenagers' speech. Also a prominent trait of the ValleyGirl and of the stereotypical {{Beatnik}}.
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25	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 ''Literature/{{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''.
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27	Compare VerbalTic, contrast RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic. Not to be confused with DudeShesLikeInAComa, though that trope's title is both an example of this one and a probable inspiration for its title.
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29	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No relation to]] [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Like Likes]]. Or the [[Website/{{Facebook}} Like button]].
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32	!!Like, Examples:
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35	[[folder:Like, Advertising]]
36	* In an advertisement for Kellogg's Caramel Nut Crunch, a boy named Wally is a stockboy at a store, but is too busy munching on the advertised cereal to be bothered doing his job. A hot female supervisor who talks in this manner comes over to tell him to get off his butt and go stock it but because the crunching of the cereal is so loud, what [[QuoteMine hears]] is "I like (''crunch crunch'') you, Wally. Like, I'm totally (''crunch crunch'') nuts (''crunch crunch'') about you."
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39	[[folder:Like, Anime & Manga]]
40	* Poland from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is shown to do this in {{Fanon}}, due to the translation of his Nagoya Schoolgirl dialect into a ValleyGirl accent. Coincidentally, this, like, totally fits with his canon personality.
41	** Hong Kong, especially in ''Manga/HetaliaBloodbath2010'', has a tendency to do this as well, although not quite to the same extent as Poland (similarly, this is a translation of his Gyaru-o dialect, which has speech patterns like that of a teenage boy).
42	* Yuudachi in the ''Anime/KanColle'' anime ends her sentences in ''POI''. This is essentially the Japanese version of like and is used to simulate the Japanese equivalent of the valley girl. Interestingly enough this has not made her the scrappy as warned above, rather it actually made her an {{ascended meme}}. To the point where even in the English sub her ''poi''s are kept in.
43	** There's even a ''POIPOIPOI'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9Nwn0BgVc remix]]
44	** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA9P4fgUgAAYxL-.jpg And a chart on how many times she said the damn thing in each of the episodes.]]
45	** Another interesting thing to note is that in the manga ''Kancolle: Shimikaze, girl of the Whirlwind'', her pois are translated into ''like''. Even Shimikaze refers to her with the nickname ''like-like-chan''.
46	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Pound, one of Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin's many husbands and the father of [[spoiler:Lola and Chiffon]] has this as a VerbalTic in the localization of the manga.
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49	[[folder:Like, Comic Books]]
50	* This is how the legionary who's, like, disguised as a rattle-seller talks in the, y'know, English translation of ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Son''.
51	* In Issue #3 of the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'', hippy pony Flax Seed always says "like" every other word. It's even lampshaded by Rarity and his annoyed wife, Wheat Grass.
52	* Toola from ''ComicBook/PocketGod'' says "like" almost anytime she speaks as part of her ValleyGirl personality.
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55	[[folder:Like, Comic Strips]]
56	* In ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'', April does this.
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59	[[folder:Like, Fan Works]]
60	* Fanfic/TheKedaboryVerse:
61	** In ''Fanfic/GlitterForceIntoTheGlitterverse'', Chelsea, the Glitterized version of [[Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure Chiyu]], is shown to speak like this.
62	** Donna from ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'' speaks like this.
63	* [[WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers Dale]] talks like this sometimes in ''Fanfic/TheRodSquad''--which is kind of remarkable since he's a ShoutOut to {{Blaxploitation}} in this [[TheSeventies '70s]]-tinged AlternateUniverseFic.
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66	[[folder:Like, Films -- Animation]]
67	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei and her friends, being 13-year-old girls, sometimes speak like this.
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70	[[folder:Like, Films -- Live-Action]]
71	* Clobber from ''Film/TheCriminal'' is an Australian thug unable to complete a simple sentence without using the word "like". His cellmate Pauly asks him if he can utter a sentence without saying "like" and Clobber fails miserably.
72	* Kayla, the protagonist of ''Film/EighthGrade'' does this extensively during her [=YouTube=] videos. An example:
73	-->"But it's '''like''', being yourself is, '''like''', not changing yourself to impress someone else. You know, because, '''like''', um, '''like''', uh, you could be the most popular kid at school or, '''like''', you know, '''like''', um, have, '''like''', the hottest boyfriend or whatever, um, but, '''like''', what's the point if you're not being yourself? And it's '''like''' being yourself can be hard. And, '''like''', the hard part about being yourself is that it's not always easy because, you know, '''like''', people can, '''like''', um, '''like''', make fun of you, or something dumb. Because, '''like''', people suck and evil people exist. Um, but you just got to ignore them and, '''like''', not care what they're saying."
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76	[[folder:Like, Literature]]
77	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': When she suffers from a case of LiteralSplitPersonality, Rachel's nice half talks this way, even in her narration. Mean Rachel, on the other hand, does not, an gets annoyed with Nice Rachel for talking like that.
78	* This is a common feature of Nadsat speak in ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', though its usage isn't exactly the same as it would be in normal teen speech.
79	* Creator/DaveBarry has like a column where he like explains that teenagers talk like this to like check that they still have the full attention of like whoever they're like talking to.
80	* In the Creator/CarlHiaasen crime novel ''Literature/StarIsland'', the annoyed bodyguard Chemo tries to work out this tic out of his assigned client with a cattle zapper.
81	* Discussed (or rather, the aversion is discussed, the story plays ca. 2200 and youth slang changed) by [[Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries Eric Northman]] in a short in "Dead but not Forgotten".
82	* In a crime novel (decades-old and surely a translation into German), some hippie girl (?) annoys everybody by her incessant "I know it positive!" (Original version unknown. It incidentally gives her sort of an alibi, as the detectives discuss: [[SarcasmMode "Surely she is the killer, I know it positive!"]]) In her defense, the exact phrase also occurs in a German translation of [[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Crime And Punishment.]]
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85	[[folder:Like, Live-Action TV]]
86	* Chav characters are portrayed as doing this ''a lot''. [[Series/LittleBritain For instance, Vicky Pollard]].
87	* The kids in ''Series/MySoCalledLife'' pretty much used "like" like, [[RuleOfThree like]], a VerbalTic. Ironically, this is one of the things the show was lauded for, as it was probably the first instance of true-to-life "teen speak" in a television show. Until then, teenagers on television usually [[MostWritersAreAdults spoke exactly like adults]], except with gratuitous TotallyRadical lingo thrown in.
88	* Neil from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' talks like this.
89	* Sometimes popped up in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', mixed in with the ValleyGirl and BuffySpeak stuff.
90	* Totally Kyle on ''Series/TheAmandaShow''.
91	* This is, like, part of Maynard's whole {{beatnik}} trip on ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''.
92	* One gag on ''Series/ModernFamily'' has Haley and a friend of hers sitting in the back of the car while Claire is driving. Haley is sprinkling "likes" into her sentences like she's overusing a salt shaker and Claire gets annoyed enough to ask her to stop saying "Like". Cue Haley throwing a fit and screaming "YOU'RE EMBARRASSING MEEEEEE!"
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95	[[folder:Like, Music]]
96	* The ValleyGirl who gives the intro to Music/SirMixALot's "[[StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks Baby Got Back]]" uses this.
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99	[[folder:Like, Pinballs]]
100	* The ValleyGirl princess in ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'' talks like this.
101	-->This is like totally medieval!
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104	[[folder:Like, Podcasts]]
105	* Cecil, smooth-voiced community radio reporter and grown man, on ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' sometimes peppers his speech with gratuitous use of the word "like" when he's rambling off-topic. Especially about his {{Love Interest\|s}}.
106	-->'''Cecil:''' Well, to the point: Carlos called, and I'm like, "Hellooo?" Like I don't even have caller ID, and he's like "I need to talk to you. This is important." And I'm like, "Ummm, okay."
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109	[[folder:Like, Radio]]
110	* In ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' the weird modern artist Ted Sponge in the episode "Torn to Shreds" uses the word "like" ''very'' excessively, and even manages to get Mr. Lamb to do it just as he leaves the office.
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113	[[folder:Like, Video Games]]
114	* Peppy villagers in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' have a habit speaking like this, being the ones with the Main/ValleyGirl personalities and all.
115	* Ini Miney talks like this in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll''. 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''...]]
116	* Basically every sentence from Nell in ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'' has her speaking like this. Also the inventor of the term "[[TotallyRadical Epic Loafage]]".
117	-->''(Jesse gives her a confused look, regarding "epic loafage".)''\
118	'''Nell:''' Ya, that means bread?
119	* Lovrina of ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'' is a variation; she doesn't use like as a comma but inserts "so" into her sentences often enough that it almost reaches VerbalTic levels. Plus, she's not dim ''at all'', being the [[EvilGenius head researcher]] of [[TheSyndicate Cipher]].
120	* Used by the [[GyaruGirl kogal]] Yuka Ayase in the [[UpdatedRerelease PSP version]] of ''VideoGame/Persona1''.
121	* Kurow in ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'' sometimes does this.
122	* Due to the game's many verbal tics, Marcy of ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has this for variation.
123	* Used extensively by the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Sorority Orcs]] in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', complete with use of question marks to complete all statements.
124	* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 2'', Barbara Bimbo randomly inserts "like" and "you know" into her sentences at random, even in places where this would be unnatural for most speakers. This results in her accidentally naming Larry as the winner of the Dating Connection game, since her odd speaking patterns cause the host to misunderstand the word "too" as "two" (i.e., contestant #2).
125	* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'' has Ms. Fit, the lovely owner of the costume shop Costumeorama, who looks and speaks like a stereotypical ValleyGirl. However, [[HiddenDepths she is actually very smart]], [[{{Bookworm}} and is also an avid reader, who loves complicated books]].
126	* [[TotallyRadical Skid McMarx]] from the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' games sometimes speaks with this. Including when he underwent UnwillingRoboticisation in the third game.
127	-->'''Skid:''' [[MachineMonotone Ehhh, like, destroy all squishies, and stuff.]]
128	* The Royal Guard 1 from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' speaks like this. Also, like, Bratty and Catty are basically textbook examples.
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131	[[folder:Like, Web Animation]]
132	* Match from ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' is sometimes guilty of this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wlt44egRjM See here.]]
133	* Salt and Pepper from ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' frequently say "Like" in their sentences, but not as much a Match from ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland''.
134	* [[Music/{{Metallica}} Lars Ulrich]] is depicted this way in ''WebAnimation/NapsterBad''; even his very first line is "Like, good afternoon!"
135	* Crayon from ''WebAnimation/ObjectOverload'' also falls into this trope at times.
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138	[[folder:Like, Webcomics]]
139	* ''Webcomic/ByTheTail'': Ivory Monroe uses the word "like" quite liberally, as befitting her ValleyGirl characterization.
140	* Felecia from ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'' doesn't play this up much, but does it often enough that it comes up when she gets sent to the psychiatrist.
141	-->'''Felicia:''' Are you sure saying "like" every other word causes fatal brain warts?\
142	'''Dr. Wahnsinnig:''' If it'll make you stop-yes, absolutely positive.
143	* The "quotative like" is discussed in [[http://xkcd.com/1483/ this]] ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' strip. (Is the linguist's quote just a statement about how language evolves - [[AmbiguouslyEvil or a death threat]]?)
144	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the use of the Ditzy card in the magical boardgame Susan participates in has a mental side effect that causes the player to act like TheDitz if not consciously overridden including manifesting [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=696 this trope.]]
145	* In ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'', Tanya's first day as the owner of her new coffee shop in Key Manati sees her deal with several idiot customers, including a stereotypical blonde bimbo who asks for a hot iced coffee in this manner.
146	* ''Webcomic/LiesSistersAndWives'': Jessica peppers her speech with "like".
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149	[[folder:Like, Web Original]]
150	* Aquerna (Anna Parsons) of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' is fourteen, and narrates her own stories. They're, like, full of adventures and stuff.
151	* The Website/JollyRogerTelephoneCompany is a company that provides bots to waste the time of telemarketers and other unwanted callers, recordings of which have found some popularity on Website/YouTube. The Salty Sally bot often peppers her speech with "like," i.e. "Yeah, um, okay, so, like, can you get to the point?" and "Like, I'm kind of, like, in the middle of something, so can you just, like, what are you ''exactly'' calling about?"
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154	[[folder:Like, Web Videos]]
155	* Taylor Mali did a hilarious piece about this called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azu8XWcHzFM éLike Lily Like Wilsoné.]]
156	* In the LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Ferr jokes that the Like-Like was named by a teenage girl from California.
157	* On ''WebVideo/SuperBeardBros'', [[TheSmartGuy Alex]] slips pretty heavily into this, in contrast to his appearances on (the rather more scripted) The Completionist and The Dex.
158	* ''WebVideo/EchoRose'': Befitting her stereotypical millennial vlogger persona, Echo peppers her dialogue with the word "like" as a verbal placeholder.
159	--> "I, like... I don't know, I, like, need something to do with my time, you know, like...otherwise, I'm just gonna be sitting here, like, rewatching ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' again, and like, I love to do that, but I can't keep doing that, you know, like..."
160	* In ''WebVideo/BackstrokeOfTheWest'', Allah Gold is told, "The Presbyterian Church, like, enjoys you not."
161	* WebVideo/DougDoug uses this a lot, as he found out when he attempted a challenge where he tried 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.
162	-->'''Doug:''' So, it turns out that this challenge is not actually about me playing Smash Bros, this is an advanced torture device to train my brain to not say the word "like" constantly.
163	* The WebVideo/InternetHistorian's video on the infamous Dashcon includes [[https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ?t=322 a mention of an apology panel the organizers held near the end of the con]] to discuss what went wrong. He then gives a "quick summary" of it, which is a ten-second supercut of the thousand and one times one of the organizers used the word "like" in this manner.
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166	[[folder:Like, Western Animation]]
167	* Shaggy from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' does this a lot. In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', Velma tries to make him stop. Creator/HarlanEllison drew attention to this trait.
168	** In ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'', it's revealed that everyone in Shaggy's family does this.
169	** Shaggy was in large part an {{expy}} of Maynard G. Krebs from ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis'', who was, like, way ahead of the curve on this one.
170	* Spook from ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' speaks this way as well.
171	* Kitty 'Shadowcat' Pryde from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' talks like this. Occasionally it gets to the point where her teammates can barely even understand her.
172	* 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... '''''like''''' ''like'' like, like?.. like?"
173	* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': As expected for a typical ValleyGirl, Tina has a hard time completing a sentence without saying "like".
174	-->'''Tina''': Oh, like, no!
175	* For her first couple of appearances in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' Eris talked like this before she switched to a British accent.
176	%%* Sissy from ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn''.
177	%%* The Ashleys from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}''
178	%%* Crystal from ''WesternAnimation/HozeHoundz''
179	%%* Mark Chang from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''
180	%%* WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead do this, like, constantly. Especially Butt-Head.
181	* Whittany and Brittany, the Biskit Twins, from ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'', are, like, huge offenders of this trope.
182	%%* Trina Riffin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}''.
183	* Shirley the Loon from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', like, regularly talks like this since she's prone to like ValleyGirl speak, or some junk.
184	* Leni Loud from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''. This is considered her most annoying habit. That, or misusing "literally."
185	* In ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', AlphaBitch Tammy and her sometimes friend Jocelyn are prone to this.
186	* Mermista does this in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', although she's basically the exact opposite of the stereotype: far from a [[TheDitz ditzy]] ValleyGirl, she's a fairly smart DeadpanSnarker with a particular line in FlatJoy.
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189	[[folder:Like, Real Life]]
190	* [[UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland Geordies]], like. Amusingly, that's about all Southerners can often translate from Geordie.
191	* Most American teenagers, black or white, male or female. Like: It's Not Just For, Like, Dumbass {{Valley Girl}}s Anymore!
192	** But English teachers will still, like, freak out over it so like, try to like, censor yourself.
193	** "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 sometimes looked down upon.
194	** Like, you can have lots of fun by, like, listening to other students try to, like, give an oral report and, like, count the number of times they, like, say "like." Six, by the way.
195	** Many American adults (particularly those under 50) also do this, albeit not to that extreme.
196	* It's like, also like, really common with like, certain British subcultures like. For some, like, this sentence would, like, be an exaggeration, like. But, like, for others, like, it's like, totally not though, right, innit though.
197	* Y'know, like, [[UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} Cork]] people, boy.
198	** Same in Limerick, like.
199	* Ow. Welcome to UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, like, but.
200	* The exact German equivalent, BTW, would be "Digger" (not gold or grave, but "fatso", literarily). The word was also likened (no pun intended) to a youth comma.
201	** Like, 5 years later, the new filler is "kappa" (google Twitch), technically meaning a sarcasm indicator, but factually again for interpunctation and exactly as annoying, Digger!
202	* For French, the exact equivalent would be "Genre". This word initially meant "kind of" but by language abuse became the equivalent of "Comme" (like).
203	* Similarly, Brazilian Portuguese has the word "tipo", which originally means "type of"/"kind of", but is often used as a comma. The longer version "tipo assim" ("kind of like this") is also used sometimes.
204	* Among Polish-speakers, the long-standing joke is that the local equivalent to the eff-word is used as a comma. (Literally, that's exactly the punchline.) This is not to be confused with Russian ''mat'', which is about forming entire coherent sentences purely out of swear words; while plasticity and well-honed expletivity of Slavic languages means you could mostly pull it off in Polish as well if you wanted to, Polish people usually just settle for [[ClusterFBomb a casual sprinkling of bleeps]] in otherwise normal sentences.
205	* Caroline Kennedy's (Yes, ''those'' [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy Kennedys]]) fledgling political career was killed[[note]]Not entirely, since she was appointed US Ambassador to Japan in November 2013, proving once more that in politics [[{{Nepotism}} it's not what you know but who you know]][[/note]] before it began when she gave a slightly incoherent 30-minute interview where she managed to use the phrase "you know" 168 times (a bit over once every 11 seconds). She was roundly mocked in the news and her words were published verbatim with all the pauses and the misspeaking intact (usually, interviews are "cleaned up" before publication), which made her look like an idiot.
206	* 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 the voice of [[Main/TheStoner the stoner dude]], don, like this, don: https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1531917483485151232
207	** Full explanation here: https://twitter.com/JohnLechner1/status/1563188906203353088
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