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I believe the cultural influence is called "having a sense of humor"

• walterbell 8y ago
  Here is a linguistic precedent, http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-07-20/features/0507190293_1_clueless-slang-amy-heckerling http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-07-20/features/05071... ”Few words have raised the ire of language purists the way the quotative "like" has in the years since "Clueless." Any tirade about the state of the language is sure to say something about "like" as a plague on the language ... "Older people have always criticized new words and [ways of speaking]," Fought says. "Go back to the 1950s to `scram' and `be cool,' and people were saying, `The youth are ruining the language.' I'm sure if you go back to Shakespeare's time, people were saying, `sooth sounds so bad, you really should say forsooth.'"