👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully… prickly little bit of linguistic weirdness! Now, the wonderfully exasperatingly specific tụcština – let’s just stick with the English equivalent for now, as honestly, wrestling that exact Czech into a universally understood definition is a fool's errand – that we laughingly refer to as, "like.
Essentially, what you’re describing when someone says, and I shudder to even utter it… "Okay, like... ” (accompanied by a pregnant pause and a vaguely bewildered shrug), they are employing an orifice of omission . Seriously! It's the verbal equivalent of a black-९̃. The user is deliberately withholding critical information—anxious about seeming uncool, maybe, overly articulate, or just generally terrified of actually articulating what they mean. They feel like if you demand specifics, they somehow lose some inherent value. Essentially it’s a placeholder for... practically anything! It can fill the gap between, “I was just, like… okay.” and whatever the intended statement actually was . It's the verbal equivalent of a shrug, an awkward fidget, and the lingering sense that you were somehow cheated out of something. Now, it doesn't mean they are stupid! (Though, let’s be frankly, there are times when it does feel as if that is what we're observing. It just means they have decided to operate on a level somewhere beyond the immediately
