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OP A Temple University linguistics professor has just issued a treatise on the floating "like" so familiar to us all, like. And her study, like, grants "like" linguistic validity, like, as a discourse particle (the evolution of language marches on...):
http://www.jsonline.com/enter/gen/sep02/71334.asp
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