Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
> So what did he do?
> - He like came over to me and...
> [topic]
>
> What's that "like" doing? Looks like topic marking to me.
>
> Then what happened?
> - Then everything just happened real' fast and...
> [topic]
Hmm ... interesting idea. I never considered that that might be a topic
marker. Maybe that's why it sometimes seems strange to drop the
"like". I'll have to look more carefully at it's usage now! :-)
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