Rob Lee notes:

I listened to one of my granddaughters over the holidays. I used to tease
her
about having a speech impediment, overuse o fthe word "like." I can no
longer
tease her about it, because it now seems to be an ACTUAL impediment. Every
third word is the best she can do right now. When you say anything to her
about
it making her speech hard to understand, she says, "Well, you know what I
mean."
snip

The most frequently used teenager verb (conjugated below):

"I was like..."
"He was like...."
"She was like...."
"They were like...."
"We were like..."

Lasts well into the twenties......

Like I know, but I've recently heard some people in their early 40s doing it.
Makes me cringe even more.

Charlie Self

"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal."
Alexander Hamilton

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