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Another place like turns up is in [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep|Welsh]] speech. [[Leet Lingo]] frequently uses "liek" as a deliberate typo.
[[Dave Barry]] once pointed out that one of the reasons young people may talk like this could be to make sure the person they're talking to is paying attention to them.
This is [[Truth in Television]], as many parents will gripe about this trope - although they'll use it in [[Totally Radical]] ways that don't match any actual teenagers' speech. Also a prominent trait of the [[Valley Girl]].
It's also [[Older Than They Think]]: screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond (who was born in 1920) and director Billy Wilder (born in 1906) had [[Marilyn Monroe]] use the expression in the 'hedge' sense above in their 1959 period comedy, ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''.
Compare [[Verbal Tic]].
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* Sissy from ''[[Pepper Ann]]''.
* The Ashleys from ''[[Recess]]''
* Mark Chang from ''[[The Fairly
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