A certain postmodern fondness for not knowing what you think about anything is perhaps inflected in the North American speech habit of inserting the word "like" after every three or four words. It would be dogmatic to suggest that something actually is what it is. Instead, you must introduce a ritual tentativeness into your speech, in a kind of perpetual semantic slurring.
-Terry Eagleton
It's like, you know, he's smart. Terry really, like, knows his shit.
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