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how do you feel , like. hearing "like" misused?
How could it be misused, Dr. Bill? It's not being used; it's just getting stuck in there. Ever since the language haters started jumping on the use of like as a conjunction there's been a bunch of them hanging around with nothing to do. The younger generation, with their younger ears, have been sensitive to this surplus of likes and have been giving them make work, in a sort of linguistic WPA. It's the undue strictures of their elders that has given rise to this so-called "misuse" and the elders resent having it thrown in their collective face. This is all that is behind the objections to like in this context.
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