Timeline for Phenomenon of overused and popular words
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Sep 27, 2012 at 18:47 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | "A meaningless filler to signify..." is so deliciously self-contradictory. | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 16:39 | comment | added | mgb | That's why Shakespeare was such a bad writer - his work is nothing but cliches | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 16:05 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | In constructions such as "And he's like, 'Radical!' ", be like has been classed by at least one grammar as a recent multi-word quote verb. | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | coleopterist | According to the source of that definition, it is being used as an adverb. It's a filler, a hedge, or a dialectal affectation. While fad could collectively represent both words and such affectations due to their possible ephemerality, IMO, the question, by virtue of the two examples provided, is talking about two different things rather than one. Words can be clichéd, as can phrases, but I don't think verbal tics, fillers, dialectal peculiarities etc. can be on an individual basis. | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 14:28 | comment | added | JLG | I think so. What traditional definition of "like" would you say describes how the word is used by younger people today? Now there is the added definition of: "Used in speech as a meaningless filler or to signify the speaker's uncertainty about an expression just used." | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 14:21 | comment | added | coleopterist | I would like totally not consider such use of the word like to be clichéd :) Is it? | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 12:29 | history | answered | JLG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |