Finally, here’s Dr. Siegel discussing this notion that “like” is a young people’s thing, never picked up by older folks who were chastised for using such “filler” language.

Dr. Muffy Siegel changed the way I saw the world—my sophomore year.

Jay NEVER becomes a lawyer without Muffy’s guidance.

Here’s Dr. Siegel discussing young people’s innovative “quotative” usage of Like

My Linguistics mentor and dear friend Dr. Muffy Siegel taught Linguistics at Temple University, then University of Pennsylvania from 1977-2017.

Muffy even started assigning my final Syntax paper to students since 2003. 🤓 Here she is, discussing her study of Like in NPR.

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also I’m going to get my hair done today so I feel like I should eat a bigger breakfast