Val-girl "like"

[Se�n Fitzpatrick]

The ADS once named filler "like" as the "most likely to succeed" linguistic novelty.  The 3 Feb Wall Street Journal (p. D1) has an article on the generation that has grown up using it like all the time and some efforts to curb that use.  My own efforts are described at http://www.stcpmc.org/pdf/OnlineOct_Nov.pdf.

Seán Fitzpatrick
Upper Darby, PA
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana; Chuck Yeager flies,
like, airplanes.