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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by WalterGR on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:16AM (#28927004)
No native speaker would say “See how it looks like”. That should either be “See what it looks like” or “See how it looks”.
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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by raymondmoay on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:30PM (#28932680)
Will fix that. Sorry, I'm from Singapore. Though english is my main language we don't speak it "properly" here I guess.
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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by WalterGR on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:19PM (#28937556)
Hey no worries! I should have said native speaker in the US. :)
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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by raymondmoay on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:19PM (#28939109)
Fixed it! Thanks for the catch. In SG we tend to add "like" to our sentences even when they don't make sense...
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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by dairylee on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:39AM (#28941133)
I'm from England (North East) and we also tend to use "like" when it doesn't make total sense, but mostly in speech and not in writing.

It's used as a bit of a filler word ("There were, like, a lot of people, like, just standing around") or as a way to soften the end of a sentence ("That show was really good like!").

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Re:Show HN: A habit tracking tool, GitHub-calendar style by cercatrova on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:15AM (#28940176)
Not so sure about that, I've heard more and more people mix up those phrases to arrive at "see how it looks like"
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