Timeline for Why do like loads of girls my age like saying "like" so much, like? [duplicate]

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Dec 20, 2010 at 10:22	vote	accept	Greg
Dec 1, 2010 at 22:39	comment	added	Henry		That kind of filler word is fairly common, and they often seem to attract opprobrium. That use of "like" has been hated about as long as it's been in use, and relatives like "you know" are similarly unpopular, but most people use some sound (often just the generic "um") to indicate that kind of filler. The underlying problem is that we can understand speech faster than we can produce it, and therefore we naturally talk faster than we can think. So when we need to catch up to what we've said, we use some kind of filler to hold our place in the conversation.
Dec 1, 2010 at 21:12	answer	added	Orbling		timeline score: 1
Dec 1, 2010 at 20:51	answer	added	Robusto		timeline score: 6
Dec 1, 2010 at 20:37	answer	added	Marthaª		timeline score: 11
Dec 1, 2010 at 20:37	comment	added	Dusty		As much as I like blaming facebook for various things, I'm afraid we can't in this case. The usage you describe is decades old. You may want to see english.stackexchange.com/questions/1531/…
Dec 1, 2010 at 20:25	history	asked	Greg	CC BY-SA 2.5