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Gumba1000 · M
It's being used as fillers. That's what linguistics call it for ums, ers etc. It's the brain not spitting out information as fast as the mouth goes. It is also brain laziness (we all have it) where new words or just the correct words are not used or used enough to be reachable quickly. "Like" being used so often becomes muscle memory.