Christopher Hitchens on “Like”
In Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens examines the use of that ubiquitous filler word, “like.”
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of “like” has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. But it didn’t start off that way, and might possibly be worth saving in a modified form.
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