Meaning of とか and こう in context なんかお店とかに、こう歩ってて


> なんかお店とかに、こう歩ってて、なんかっす、こう、スベッ、スベッて転んだことが。痛い！

What is the meaning of こう how it’s used in this context? And what is the
purpose of とか？I know なんか is similar to “like” and っす is short for です so it
seems like this is a pretty informal sentence.




[こう](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%96%AF%E3%81%86-493779) just means "like
this", from このように. He might literally be demonstrating the way he was walking
and how he fell as he speaks, but it's more likely that he simply used it as a
filler word (in English you might use "like" in this way). As such, I believe
it's used here in a similar sense as the "like" in "I was like walking, and
then like, I fell, and it like hurt _so_ bad!" (liberal partial translation).

[とか](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8B-582055) means "and such"
([here](https://www22.atwiki.jp/2shiki/pages/203.html) are examples of usage
along with some analysis), but here it again may be used simply as a filler
word (in English, "n-stuff" might be a relatively close alternative). You
could thus attempt to translate it as "So I was walking to the store n'stuff,
and then like..." but it's not quite this obnoxious in Japanese, so the
translation would not be completely faithful to the nuance.

I would add that the なんか is also just filler and could similarly be translated
as "like" or maybe something to the effect of the "I dunno, like" in "I, like,
I dunno, like, fell, and (...).".

And as noticed by Chocolate, the っす after なんか is likely a mistranscription,
and it more likely refers to the ス in "スベッて転んだ" as the person interrupts his
stuttering for a moment by interjecting こう. This would ultimately make the
translation of that part go like "I, like, I dunno, f-, like, fe-, fell, and
it really _hurt_!" Something similar may have occurred with the 歩ってて
(presumably 歩いてて), although apparently this is also used in some
[dialect](https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1115659796),
so it's hard to say whether this was intentional or not.

Related: [What does こう in 何ていうかこう
mean](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/57331/what-
does-%E3%81%93%E3%81%86-in-%E4%BD%95%E3%81%A6%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%86-mean)

