On: Language history and we: the case of “like”

[gumby]

Yeah, Malay has "la" which gets tacked onto a sentence or phrase following rules that are intuitive but I doubt I could write down.

My mum could use a single "la" as an entire sentence and we knew exactly what she meant, rarely something good.

[mvcalder → gumby]

Bruh

[gumby → mvcalder]

Quite a good equivalent, although "la" is very heavily used and by everyone. Perhaps Bruh will spread to that point, who knows?