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People like to make fun of people
that use the word 'like' too much.
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But you know what? It does have
a lot of meanings and in a lot
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of situations, it's not a filler word.
You know of course, that we use it for
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preference. I like that, I don't like that.
It also means approximately. For example, Mmm,
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it was like, 10 minutes long." It's not a
filler word there, it does have a meaning.
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It was about 10 minutes long, it
was approximately 10 minutes long.
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So, give people who use it in that context a
break. There's one other way we use it a lot.
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And that is to mean "said." If
you're telling a story, "He was like,
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...And then I was like.
And then we were all like..."
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It's just a word there that's means "said".
So again, it's not a filler word. It
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does have a meaning.
So, like, stop giving
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people a hard time about this.
Ok, there, it had no meaning.
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