British English being influenced! - The use of 'Like'

[Tom]

Hi

Please see below: I would request you to help me understand the red parts. What is common in British English now which was not common a few decades ago? What was being used instead?

[Pamela]

Hi Tom
Let me have a whack at it

[Mister Micawber]

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NOW: Like I do FORMERLY: As I do

NOW: Do you have? FORMERLY: Have you? (As Pamela explains)
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[stew.t.]

Michael Swan really does not hightlight the main use of like in this context. More common especially colliquially is "Like you do". To clarify the context here is an example of possible useage.

"He asked his mate; `hows ya MRS doin?,
like ya do!"

*Ya stands for you. MRS can be used sarcastically to refer to a girlfriend who you have been with for a long time or you act like husband and wife. It is not offensive to use, and is British English is commonplace in parts of London and the North.

The use here of "like ya do" is suggesting that the term MRS is either inappropriate or so commonplace as to be almost normal.

"Like I do" sounds quite forced to me or pretentious.

e.g. You want to speak German like I do, without an accent and very high German: ; )

It may still be used, but the speaker deserves a big wet fish slap round the face.

"Like" has infected English in many more commonplace ways but that is a discussion for a different thread.
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[Tom]

[prezbucky]

Back in the 1990s, "like" began replacing sounds like um, ahhh, uhhh, erm, etc. -- pause noises.

The average junior high student (girls are especially known for this -- don't throw anything at me, please, ladies) might be heard using "like" in the following context:

"Like, oh my God, like, my dad totally, like, won't let me drive his Porsche and, like, it sucks so bad."
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