The use of ‘like’ has been declared an epidemic and a threat to the future of the language. Federal, state, and local governments have begun to debate alternatives to combat language degradation, beyond the removal of twitter posts by the outgoing gang of language degraders.
The initiatives are already drawing criticism and push back, primarily from right-wing groups who see the effort to restrict their incorrect, gratuitous use of a specific word as constitutionally unacceptable.
“It’s like making us put, like, a mask on our brains, like,” a view simultaneously expressed by QAnon, the entire senate Republican caucus, and all of TrumPutin’s children.
Abner Abner, a GOP state legislator from any red state, immediately tweeted, “This is socialism at its worst, like, yeah, it’s socialism that’s, like, un-American, and not, like, socialism, that, like, gives billions to corporate agriculturalists.”
A senator from Texas, either idiot, immediately announced he would hold senate hearings. “The Democrats are fixated on impeachment by, like, not re-electing our king, and they want, like, socialistic socialism, but they, like, totally ignore the legitimiciality of, like, like.” He stopped pounding the table only for a second before adding, “It is, like, so bad to stop, like, using a word like, like, like. That is socialism, to stop using words just because they, like, don’t mean anything. Like ‘conservative,’ or, like, ‘intelligent Republican,’ or, like, so, yeah.”
And then Abner Abner and the senator from South Carolina went golfing with the lame duck who won’t, like, shut up and, like, go away. So, yeah …