Do you know that? What? Native speakers of English like using ‘LIKE’. And they, especially if your friends and coworkers are young, use ‘LIKE’ a lot. For example, do you know what Janet means? And in the ball a guy came to me and I’m like ‘Who are you? Do we know each other?’
So what does the ‘like’ mean? There are three choices for you.
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The first choice is: like is similar to love, for example: I like this jacket. Well, in I’m like ‘Who are you? Do we know each other?’ the ‘like’ has nothing to do with ‘love’.
The second choice is: like means ‘similar to‘, for example, I was, like, standing there (saying not even a word to the man). No again. The above ‘like’ is a filler. What is a filler? It is when you talk and you don’t want to pause and the word ‘like’ come to rescue you. In other words, the ‘like’ here is just like ‘you know’ or ‘right’.
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So obviously you know Choice C is the answer, right? What is choice C? You use ‘like’ when you want to say something in the EXACT WORDS. What do I mean by exact words? Read the following from Janet again (this time she was rejected).
I asked him if he wanted to go out with me, and he’s, like, ‘hit the road’. (Hit the road = Go away)
So the Feel Good tip is: Use ‘LIKE‘ before the exact words.
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