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- hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 
- hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 
:That has like nothing to do with it. The German analogue is "so" ("Ich so: Kein Scheiss! Dann sie so: Sicher, Mann!"). --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.138|108.162.254.138]] 11:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)  
 
:That has like nothing to do with it. The German analogue is "so" ("Ich so: Kein Scheiss! Dann sie so: Sicher, Mann!"). --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.138|108.162.254.138]] 11:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)  
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:: The *grammatical* analogue, granted. I talked about the *sociological* analogue. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 11:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
  
 
I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 
I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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::Yeah, like that. I like it. [[User:Bentinata|Bentinata]] ([[User talk:Bentinata|talk]]) 04:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 
::Yeah, like that. I like it. [[User:Bentinata|Bentinata]] ([[User talk:Bentinata|talk]]) 04:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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:: TVTropes already did it. (Then again, what didn't they?) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 11:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

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That second panel is, like, depressing. 108.162.249.185 05:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I found the article. Piderman (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Cool, added it. Thanks. PinkAmpersand (talk)

God also introduced a new concept "light" and was quicker implementing it throughout the world. And light sounds similar to (like) like. Sebastian --108.162.231.68 08:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Are there any other examples of actual living people who are not celebrities being name-checked in xkcd? Andries (talk) 13:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Given that the article noted that the next generation would be, quote, "in control," I think Cueball's interpretation is...well, slightly less absurd than it would be otherwise. 108.162.216.109 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

«Cueball: Like, when you're like, "She was like"?» What does that mean? --RenniePet (talk) 15:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Closest translation: "For example, when you say 'she said...'" Andyd273 (talk) 15:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Non-English analogon

It might interest you that in Germany exactly the same phenomenon exists, only in different flavor: the lower caste using "Digger" (like, "Fatso") as each third word, possibly in lieu of a comma. (Appears not yet in written material.) Anyone forced to overhear such a conversation is tempted to smack them in the face - hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) 108.162.230.221 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

That has like nothing to do with it. The German analogue is "so" ("Ich so: Kein Scheiss! Dann sie so: Sicher, Mann!"). --108.162.254.138 11:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
The *grammatical* analogue, granted. I talked about the *sociological* analogue. 108.162.230.221 11:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. 199.27.128.195 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Do you mean like: "In this comic, Megan like mentions an article on like the use of the word "like" as, like, a quotative, like. Cueball, like, makes a joke on this by, like,managing to use the word "like" like three times in like a seven word sentence, like. The "quotative like" is like regularly given as like an example of like the decline of the English language, like. It is used to like introduce a quotation or impersonation, although what follows may not be a like "verbatim" like quote, but rather conveys the like general meaning of the original phrase, like." Plm-qaz snr (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
Yeah, like that. I like it. Bentinata (talk) 04:19, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
TVTropes already did it. (Then again, what didn't they?) 108.162.230.221 11:37, 9 February 2015 (UTC)