Texto menor no cartaz diz: "Every year more than a tenth of all college students in the USA receive bad grades because of their excessive use of the word 'like'."
Like, why do so many people like saying like? By like, Trevor Stokes
It turns out that famous public speakers have lately been developing linguistic habits once most commonly associated with gum-cracking teenagers.
Even, like, President Bush.
Discussing Social Security at a March 21 White House news conference, the leader of the free world used these words to describe a recent crisis: “The system,” the president declared, “was about to, like, fall into the abyss.” Later in the news conference, Bush gave his take on the current situation in Iraq: “There are other voices coming out of Iraq, by the way, other than Mr. Allawi--who I know, by the way, like, he's a good fellow.”
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http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2006-04-04/stokes-likelikelike