Re:Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute
by munificent on Monday March 12, 2012 @05:56PM
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kristianc was like, "It's not necessarily the most elegant use of language, but it's not a pause or a tick.", but that's not, like, the only use of "like" in American vernacular. It's also used to pause, or to, like, distance yourself from what you're saying.
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Re:Paul Graham consistently says ‘um’ ~7 times per minute
by lkozma on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @06:50AM
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Nice going... For sentences like your last example, in the past few years I've been hearing "as in" with increasing frequency. I find it quite annoying and would be very curious to learn about its origins, as in how did it start.