I always liked the word 'like'. It indicated positive feelings about someone or something, signified similarity. But when the formerly articulate Jon
Stewart, in the first episode of his
new show, said "And I'm like, what?" in a stream of verbiage strewn with meaningless 'likes', it was a sign that 'like' had suffered the final act of logocide, as if the dying word, zombified, had finally infected every last logocidal
person, regardless of age, education, you know, and I'm like, damn.