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| | defective yeti: I Like Like |
 | | Some of the folks calling into the program, meanwhile, sounded like they were ready to knife the next person to mix up "imply" and "infer." And nearly all of them claimed that their linguistic pet peeve drove them crazy or drove them nuts. |
 | | Like, I don't mind it when "like" is used as, like, a modifier, but, like, when it like, appears as like, every other word in a sentence I think it like, goes well beyond enhancement and, like, makes the speaker sound like they're unable to like, form a single coherent sentence. |
 | | Like: people today (yes, I'm enjoying this bit of generalizing :-) can't be bothered to figure out what something truly is, so they settle a series of similes, for some vague "like"-nesses. |
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