Comment by enlightens
7 hours ago
The use of the word “like” here could be replaced with the word “so”
“So if this is a crowdsourcing project…”
Like is serving as an indication that someone else approximately said the phrase it introduced, in a way often associated with the “Valley Girl” social dialect but regularly seen outside of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_colloquial_quotative
> The use of the word “like” here could be replaced with the word “so”
Correct, but that's not a quotative use of the word. It's a discourse particle. You want to link one subsection down, like as a discourse particle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like#As_a_discourse_particle,_...