Like is umm, like cool

You don't notice it that much when you listen to someone talk just in a conversation, but when listening to something recorded, you notice things about spoken language much more. When listening to my recording of my friend and transcribing it, I hear all sorts of interesting things in the way that she talks. I picked up on these things because I wasn't listen to her sentences, but I was actually listen to her words. Two things that I noticed a lot while transcribing were her use of umm and her use of like. Sometimes people use like as a stale word when they do not know what to say. But my friend did not do that. She used the more traditional stale words like ummm, and yeah, and so. Like was only really used in place of says or something like that. She would be like I went to the mall with my friend because thats one of our favorite things to do. This isn't to say that she never used like as a stale word, but it was less often. It is interesting on how many different things that you hear when you are not listening to respond to what someone says, but are just listening to the words that they are speaking.