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[Vote third-party No.5367219]

How do we eliminate the word "like" and its excessive usage from the English language?

>It's, like, 12:30pm
>it's, like, hot outside
>it's, like, my favorite book

etc.

[Anonymous No.5367225]

>prescriptivism
do you even linguistics, pleb

[Anonymous No.5367226]

>>5367219

By making everyone self-conscious about it. Over generations people would instinctively move away from it and with some luck pay more attention to how they speak.

[Anonymous No.5367227]

Stop saying it. People are influenced by your speech patterns.

Of course, if you spend all day in your mom's basement posting on 4chan and don't actually speak to anyone, you're not going to influence shit.

[Anonymous No.5367231]

>>5367219
I think we should, like, vote third-party or something.
Preferably, like, some miniature communist splinter party.

[Vote third-party No.5367236]

>>5367231

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5367240]

>>5367219
Eliminate capitalism.

[Anonymous No.5367242]

>>5367219
I don't think it's, like, a problem.

[Anonymous No.5367246]

>>5367242

That's just like, your opinion.

[Anonymous No.5367248]

>>5367219
Kill all women

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5367273]

>>5367248
So you don't want or care about the human race continuing, I take it.

[Anonymous No.5367277]

>>5367219
>>It's, about 12:30pm
>>it's, sort of hot outside
>>it's, approximately my favorite book

[Anonymous No.5367295]

>>5367277
>>approximately my favorite book

[Anonymous No.5367315]

>>5367225
descriptivists are definitely right, but fuck them.

[Anonymous No.5367329]

What about like used to begin reported speech?

So I'm talking to Cindy, right, and she's like, "What are you even doing here?"
And I'm like, "Bitch, don't act like you don't know!"

[Vote third-party No.5367342]

>>5367329
>and she said
>and then I said

[Anonymous No.5367345]

>>5367342

Latter part doesn't flow as well.

[Anonymous No.5367367]

>>5367342
I think that "like" in that context has more of a connotation of "said something to the effect of"

[Anonymous No.5367387]

Why does it matter? It's just a placeholder. I don't notice it when people talk to me

[Anonymous No.5367473]

>>5367345
>and she said
>so I replied

[Anonymous No.5367485]

>>5367473

Yeah that's better.

[Anonymous No.5367503]

>>5367273
>implying

Science, bitch.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5367646]

>>5367503
Implying... Men will scientifically give themselves wombs and eggs and just get rid of women? Or create immortal robots that don't need to recreate?

[Anonymous No.5367693]

>>5367219

/pol/ here, replace it with "kike" in casual conversation.

Failing that, convince old people to pick up the habit so that it becomes "uncool" among the "hip" and rebellious children than have been ruined by degenerate modern society.

[Anonymous No.5367706]

>>5367646
>Recent findings by a group of scientists from the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) have taken the scientific world by storm, by announcing a stem cell discovery made that will allow gay people to create their own eggs that could be used in a surrogate birth.

There are plenty of 'tards (both gay and straight) who want to ruin their lives by having kids. No need to worry about that front.

[Anonymous No.5367710]

its just a filler word like uh or um

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5367713]

>>5367706
But if they take this rout they wont be men anymore.
If they take the robot rout they wont be human anymore.

[Anonymous No.5367718]

i can't even OP, literally

[Anonymous No.5367727]

>>5367273
>natalism

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.5367741]

>>5367727
>Anti-natalism
This is why we should just stop having men for a few generations.

[Anonymous No.5367841]

You should substitute them for onomatopoeias. Placeholders don't mean shit anyway, they might as well sound like this:

>it's, ZUM, 12:30pm
>it's, POW, hot outside
>it's, BANG, my favorite book

[Anonymous No.5367900]

>>5367741
Hey, can you please an hero already? Thanks.

[Anonymous No.5367912]

>>5367219

its like saying erm or um or sort of

just because you dont enjoy the word it doesnt mean it ought to be eliminated - lighten up

[Anonymous No.5367930]

This is like, the thousandth time I hear someone complain about it.

[Anonymous No.5367941]

In 10 years' time, you'll be complaining about some new something else all the kiddies can't stop saying.

It's ridiculous, OP. But, I guess you charge at windmills for fun when you're unemployed and, like, don't have a girlfriend nor friends.

[Vote third-party No.5368226]

>>5367841
made me kek

[Anonymous No.5369020]

>>5367277
>approximately my favorite book
You guys are great


Anyway, OP, don't think of it as a word. It's just a verbal tick of the "um" "herm" "well" variety.

[Anonymous No.5371039]

Use 'like' as much as possible until the english language implodes and we have to delete it.

Replace it with french, spanish, german, russian, farsi, mandarin, arabic, japanese.

"Literally" any language is better than english.

[Anonymous No.5371047]

>>5367841
Do you scream them? Because it would a nice way of making people notice how weird it is abusing a word.

[Anonymous No.5371380]

>>5367693
Is it just me, or do a lot of /pol/acks find their way here?

[Anonymous No.5371387]

>>5367713
Don't worry butterfly, we'll need women for a while yet

[Anonymous No.5371396]

>>5371380
Yea but they don't stick around, they don't actually read

[Anonymous No.5371420]

>>5371396
Do they think we talk about Mein Kampf constantly? I don't see the appeal?