Like, here's the episode on "like"

02/15/24 • 38 min

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Like is a very divisive word. Purists think it's like, a filler word born in the 80s that's like, destroying the English language. Turns out none of these are like, true.

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Like is a very divisive word. Purists think it's like, a filler word born in the 80s that's like, destroying the English language. Turns out none of these are like, true.

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Stuff You Should Know - Like, here's the episode on "like"

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Speaker 100:00:01.479

Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.

Speaker 200:00:11.080

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is stuff you should Know. Another linguistic, fantastic, gigantic addition devisive. I guess really though, I mean, if you're standing up against the use or over use of the word like, just take your head out of the hole and look around and s