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Thu. 05/19 - In Defense of "Like"

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Why do we judge each other so harshly for saying “like,” even though most of us say it way more often than we’d admit to? Plus, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is launching mere hours after recording… probably. Here’s everything you need to know about the second contender in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. And introducing Pepsi™-Roni Pizza. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcast Links: Why do people, like, say, 'like' so much? (The Guardian) Boeing Is Ready to Launch Starliner, a Rival to SpaceX's Dragon (Wired) What You Need to Know about NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (NASA) How to Watch Boeing Launch Its Beleaguered Astronaut Capsule to the ISS (Gizmodo) Boeing Starliner OFT-2 Launch (Official NASA Broadcast) (NASA, YouTube) Landmark Mars robot will run out of power, ending historic mission (Mashable) NASA's InSight Still Hunting Marsquakes as Power Levels Diminish (NASA) Just When We Settled Our Differences About Pineapple on Pizza, Pepsi Entered the Chat With Pepsi-Roni (The Mary Sue) Finally, a New Pepsi Flavor We Can Get Behind (The Takeout) Pepsi™-Roni Pizza in NYC (Pepsi, Eventbrite) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it's thursday may 19th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. Why do we judge each other so harshly for saying like, even though most of us say it way more often than we'd admit to?

0:49.8

Plus, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is launching mere hours after recording, probably.

0:56.8

Here's everything you need to know about the second contender in NASA's commercial crew program.

1:02.3

And introducing Pepsi Rony Pizza.

1:06.1

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:10.7

You know what I, like, really don't like? When someone... some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:13.8

You know what I, like, really don't like?

1:19.3

When someone, like, judges someone else for how often they, like, use the word, like,

1:22.5

that example might have been a bit extreme.

1:27.3

Sometimes the word, like, or any word, or verbal pause can be used with such frequency that it becomes tough

1:28.3

to understand what a person is saying or absolutely aggravating waiting for them to just get the word

1:33.5

out. But I am of the opinion that the word like has a very specific usage that we don't really

1:39.7

have any other replacement for. Before I get into that, though, let's dive into why people are so quick to make assumptions

1:47.0

about people who say like so much, even though almost all of us say it quite a bit.

1:53.0

Sam Wolfson dug into this in The Guardian recently and pointed out that critiques of the word like were particularly high in the 90s, when the word had proliferated

2:02.6

among youth and was often seen as representative of that valley girl accent. Critics of the word

2:09.0

often argue that using it too much or in certain ways makes you sound stupid. There's certainly

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