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by enlightens
521 days ago
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The use of the word “like” here could be replaced with the word “so” “So if this is a crowdsourcing project…” Like is serving as an indication that someone else approximately said the phrase it introduced, in a way often associated with the “Valley Girl” social dialect but regularly seen outside of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_colloquial_quotative |
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Correct, but that's not a quotative use of the word. It's a discourse particle. You want to link one subsection down, like as a discourse particle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_discourse_particle,_...