Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'
Yeah, yeah, I overuse 'like' too. It even grates on me when *I* do it, and yet I say this all the time!
I feel like I'm channelling Janice the Muppet: Like ya know, for sure, REALLY! ::tosses hair out of eyes::
I have to rank literally as a pretty poor intensifier, because it's like setting the volume to 11. I'm deaf now, it doesn't matter anymore.
I am not doing today well. I'd really really like a redo of everything except that great fic I read before work. Well, technically, redoing that wouldn't be bad either--it's just that everything else should change.
As in "Steve grabbed the book, and he was like 'This is a better movie!' and I was like 'It's totally a better movie!'"
I have a lot of fondness for that usage. Also the similar application of "all". As in "so I was all, 'I have to see what book they're talking about' but I didn't want to interrupt."
Ditto with the "was like" and "was all" to mean "said."
I just had the thing where I saw someone in the hallway and went, "CRAP! You need something from me. What is it?"
Ditto with the "was like" and "was all" to mean "said."
Yep. I'm like, "So I was like," all the time. I don't think I use "was all" as much.
I'm an English major and everything.
I'm an English major and everything.
Journalism here, but I think they would prefer not to claim me.
I am all verbal tics and swearing.
I like like as a telling verb, because I feel that it has "(paraphrasing)" built right into the definition.
Oh, no, he didn't literally say that. But he was totally like that.
Dude. Brinicle ice finger of death is my favourite headline of the morning: [link]
I like like as a telling verb, because I feel that it has "(paraphrasing)" built right into the definition.
Me too. When I use like, I am usually a) paraphrasing b) trying to transmit the essence of what was said and the mood or emotion and c) using a put on voice and hand gestures.
I say all those things except literally. When my sister was a kid, my mom called her Literal Laura because she loved to call people out on their usage of the word, or deliberately misinterpret metaphors. And now her kids do the same thing. It's not all that surprising that a kid who loved that kind of wordplay grew up to be a linguist.
I use "like" to approximate, both in paraphrasing quotes and to indicate uncertainty in specificity. "There were, like, ten cops there."