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1. www.reddit.com › r › britishproblemsPeople using the word 'obviously' as a filler word while ...

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   It's how you find out someone doesn't have the ability to teach. Ask them to explain something, and if they use the words/phrases 'obviously' 'just' or 'it's easy' then they have failed.

2. www.reddit.com › r › unpopularopinionI hate the excessive use of the word 'Like' in the context of ...

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   Practically every person I've met used "like" as a filler word, even an old person, so dismissing this as annoying like it's going to make you intellectually superior or something is peak pretentious.

3. www.reddit.com › r › unpopularopinionThe word “obviously” is rude and belittling. : r/unpopularopinion

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   It was obvious to him, but not to us that he would be smoking, so he made a bad word choice and sounded uneducated. It’s like when people use the word “literally” to refer to figurative things. For something to be “obvious” it should have been informally established in the conversation already that both parties were aware of such thing.

4. spin.atomicobject.com › never-use-the-word-obviouslyWhy You Should Never Use the Word “Obviously” - Atomic Spin

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   Sep 9, 2014 · So what should you do if you are stuck in a situation where the word “obviously” is almost as common as hello? If you are a mentor, teacher, or leader, the first thing you can do is remove it from your own vocabulary.

5. www.vox.com › explain-it-to-me › 373342Is saying “like” a lot a bad thing? Actually, no. | Vox

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   Sep 25, 2024 · “Why do I say “like’ so often?” To tackle this question, I had a conversation with Valerie Fridland, sociolinguist and author of the book Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2024/03/18 › learningDo You Use, Like, Too Many Filler Words? - The New York Times

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   Mar 18, 2024 · A Times columnist writes about the ubiquity of the word “like” in everyday speech. Is it an annoying verbal tic that we should try to avoid? Or does it actually improve our communication?

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   Is like a bad word?

   • Like has been a particularly bountiful source of irritation for people who get annoyed by the language habits of other people: while most offending words, such as irregardless, find a single specialty and stick with it, like annoys people in two distinct ways. Yet in each case, one can make an argument that like isn't so bad as one might assume.

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   Does like annoy people?

   • The short answer to that question is "so much." Like has been a particularly bountiful source of irritation for people who get annoyed by the language habits of other people: while most offending words, such as irregardless, find a single specialty and stick with it, like annoys people in two distinct ways.

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   Is 'like' a bad thing?

   • Like has always been widely misused by the illiterate; lately it has been taken up by the knowing and the well-informed, who find it catchy or liberating, and who use it as though they were slumming. Shorts are not acceptable dinner attire in most better-grade restaurants….

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   Why do people hate the word 'like'?

   • Annoyance #2: Using Like When It Doesn't, Like, Mean Anything Once people stopped getting upset about like as a conjunction, they found a new reason to dislike it: its use as a meaningless word by young people. Fair enough.

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   Is like a adverb?

   • Linguists who study this use of like have identified numerous functions. When someone says “That has to be, like, the fiftieth time you’ve told me to not use like,” the word functions as an approximative adverb, and informs the listener that some estimate of quantity is included in the sentence.

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   What does like mean in a sentence?

   • Like is often found grazing at the beginning of sentences, in a position that is generally thought of as a discourse marker. A discourse marker is the word you use at the beginning of a sentence when you say " Well, I think that using like in that way makes you sound foolish."

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8. www.merriam-webster.com › grammar › read-this-if-youThere's No Need to Hate the Word 'Like' | Merriam-Webster

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   People have been complaining about supposedly incorrect uses of 'like' for a long time. But there's nothing wrong with using 'like' as a conjunction—and the supposedly meaningless use of 'like' by young people is not really meaningless, nor is it limited to a particular age or gender.