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May 15, 2022, 16:20
haberdasherWhom are you going to believe, me or some strange dictionary?
— Prescriptivist and Proud Of It
May 29, 2022, 06:56
zmježdquote:
Another peeve
My favorite use of "like" is the quotative "like", although I tend to use the quotative "go" more often myself. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...colloquial_quotativeIn Classical Sanskrit, quotations are often indicated by
iti.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
So, it was Britney Spears who like, started it, huh? I dis-like that twit.
Thanks for the good info, Jim!
June 01, 2022, 15:46
bethree5Hahaha-- love this article. Here are my favorite parts:
1.Emma Thompson in this interview sounds exactly like her character on “Years and Years.” Hmmm…
2. “They want to freeze it and they want to judge it.” Exactly as my dad used to say about what he considered snobby judgment re: land development [he was, guess what, a land developer]. We would call him a “descriptivist”—ideas change, culture changes, land use changes. (Not a fan of zoning)
3. “My, like, grandma died.” ROFL!!
June 01, 2022, 15:48
bethree5My current pulpy read is a legal thriller published about 30 yrs ago. The attorney dad is at breakfast with his kids, and challenges his 14yo daughter to converse for 5 minutes without uttering either the word “like” or the word “mean” [as in, “I mean,..”] She retorts, “Well I guess I can’t tell my dad I like him, because he’s so mean.”
June 01, 2022, 15:50
bethree5Augusts, growing up, I got to see all my cousins on my mother’s side, when her clan gathered in Brewster, MA. They were from South Jersey near Philly, Chicago, Long Island, plus two branches from Rochester NY. All the elders had an odd ‘family’ accent—a sort of clipped drawl—apparently from being raised by a dad from NC and a Mom from Halifax. My cousins had versions of it that had been diluted by their regional accents. The Chicago cousins—and only those cousins (and not their parents)—had that “uptalk, ending your sentence by going up, like it’s a question?” Was that a Chicago thing? Did it have something to do with their mother being French? They were kinda wealthy/ trendy: could they have been on the very front end of Valley Girl talk (in the 1950’s?). Hey:
Ann Margret was a classmate of the eldest-- was it a a Swedish thing?
June 01, 2022, 19:04
KallehWe have talked about "so"
here and
here. I was doing a recorded interview the other day and realized that I started almost every question with "So..." I must stop that!
June 01, 2022, 19:05
Kallehquote:
had that “uptalk, ending your sentence by going up, like it’s a question?” Was that a Chicago thing?
I don't think it is a Chicago thing. I think of it as a Canadian thing.
June 01, 2022, 20:44
BobHalequote:
Originally posted by Kalleh:
quote:
had that “uptalk, ending your sentence by going up, like it’s a question?” Was that a Chicago thing?
I don't think it is a Chicago thing. I think of it as a Canadian thing.
It's a feature of various accents including Australian.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 06, 2022, 19:48
KallehI am sure I have said this here before, but I am very prone to uptalking. Some of our members are Canadians and when I am on calls with them, I notice that I begin uptalking. Very strange.
June 20, 2022, 05:04
zmježdJust noticed this
XKCD cartoon on
quotative like.
—Ceci n'est pas un seing.
June 20, 2022, 05:51
BobHalequote:
Originally posted by zmježd:
Just noticed this
XKCD cartoon on
quotative like.
What are you like?
(Or is that just a British expression meaning something like "well isn't that just typical of you"?)
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 20, 2022, 06:35
GeoffIt appears that we are doomed to, like, similes.