What is "Liketalk?"

"Liketalk" is the lingua franca of a new generation. As you listen on the street corner or in your place of work or in the halls of the high school, it is perfectly obvious that the very sound and essence of English has shifted in the last few years. A whole cluster or phrases are used because they make the likeaholic feel like they fit in; that they're youthful -- that they're not being conventional, boring older people.
But if you really listen, it becomes clear that the hipness factor has become completely hollow. Likeaholics don't hear the tedium and unimaginativeness of their habitual way of speaking. The sound of it can be compared to eating a meal:
Imagine you've ordered a four-course dinner at a fine restaurant...Ceasar salad with peppercorn, an elegant French steak dish, rice pilaf with almonds and scallions, a cranberry mousse for dessert. That's the English language, in all of its internationalism, its variety and flavor. Now take two handfuls of little lemon jelly beans and sprinkle them over every dish. THAT'S "liketalk". In every mouthful, lemon candy