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Pet Peeve: Sample Ballots in Spanish
Every election cycle, I'm reminded of one of my pet peeves.
My "Official 2010 General Election Sample Ballot" comes in the mail printed in English and Spanish.
For crying out loud, of all things, you should have to know English to vote.
And guess what? The majority of people who speak Spanish would agree. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the number of people who think Spanish belongs on the sample ballot is equal to the number of Americans who can't read English who'd want some in-person help at the polling booth. My grandfather on my mother's side came to the U-S from Spain. It goes without saying that he didn't need a Spanish translation to cast his vote.
I also think this should be the case for any local, county, state or federal communication. It just doesn't pass the common-sense smell test to have any level of government in the U.S. communicating in a foreign language. Besides, there's plenty of help from community groups and non-profits. Even the media pitches in: Spanish-language TV networks Univision and Telemundo are explaining to viewers the ABCs of voting.
I don't have to tell you how many other countries make these types of accommodations for foreigners…
For the business side of things, I don't mind the multi-lingual messages. One of the ATMs I frequent is located in a town with a heavy Hispanic population. To me, it's smart business when the machine asks if I'd like to proceed with my transaction in English or Spanish. That's what I call understanding the customer. (We all look like dollar signs to banks, regardless of our language.)
In my brief time working for the State of New Jersey, at the Motor Vehicle Commission, I was always amazed that we offered the written driver's exam in more than a dozen languages! The list has since been whittled down to nine foreign languages. They're listed here.
What good does it do to take the test in a foreign language if you can't read English road signs? Especially since driving is a privilege, not a right.
That said, why doesn't Congress pass a law that makes English the official language of the U.S.? It's really not that hard. In these belt-tightening times, the government would save money on printing and translating costs.
I'm not saying foreigners in the U.S. have to adopt American cultures, stop cooking native foods, or give up their foreign language. If I moved overseas, I'd still want to keep current on the Jets and Mets, grill a burger once in a while, and speak English at home with my family. But I'd expect to learn the foreign language if I had dealings with the government.
Just an FYI, in my town, I was happy to learn that urnas abiertas 6:00 am – 8:00 pm on Martes, el 2 de noviembre.


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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida judge has denied a defense request to delay the start of the trial of a neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the fatal shooting of an unarmed teen.
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Martin's killing drew worldwide attention as it sparked a national debate about race, equal justice under the law and gun control. Zimmerman could get a life sentence if convicted.


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I prefer the word 'bike', or 'trike'. Just as useful to bike break up bike phrases.
Admit it, whether you regard yourself as a scholar of linguistics or a self proclaimed language snob – you've, at least once, crossed over to the dark side and used the word "like" in a sentence where it, like, doesn't belong. Narrowly escaping the grammar police, you catch yourself, cringe and promise never again! This usage of "like" is known as a slang interjection. This form as well as the adverbial use of "like" dates back a lot further than you might think.
Many people believe Moon Unit Zappa and her 1982 single Valley Girl are responsible for popularizing this usage of "like" precisely at the moment Ms. Zappa sang, "It's like, barf me out." The sociolect that the song celebrates, Valspeak, originates in Southern California. In reality, the slang use of the word "like" has been a part of popular culture dating as far back as 1928 and a cartoon in the "New Yorker" that depicts two women discussing a man's workspace with a text that reads, "What's he got – an awfice?" "No, he's got like a loft." The word pops up again in 1962's A Clockwork Orange as the narrator proclaims, "I, like, didn't say anything."
The notorious usage of "like" appeared as linguistic filler as early as the 19th century with the following passage in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped: "'What's like wrong with him?' said she at last."
"Like" is an extensible word that can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, and interjection. What uses of "like" do you think are acceptable and which should be discouraged? Let us know your thoughts.
I prefer the word 'bike', or 'trike'. Just as useful to bike break up bike phrases.
You Are a complete dunce ,
go back to primary school. You failed
You wasted tax payer funds o your par tsxmomey if you attended prvate school.
You Should be ashamed of yourself
Hope you're really disgusted with your ignorance.
Grade : F
The usage among younger Canadian teens and young women (a.k.a. the younger generation) in Canada has skyrocketed. In Toronto today, one hears this misuse of the word 'like' in every phrase of every sentence.
'Like' is also used in conjunction with other redundant combinations like "I was like" as in the example "So Brandon asked me if I could do 'like', this favor for him, and 'I was like'… blah blah blah"..
Language is all made up, my guys. You people are all making a huge deal out of nothing and putting elitism in language that doesn't belong.
Restricting the richness and nuances of grammar limits the ability to communicate. Your comment is "like wow".
Wrong. There are standards .
There probably would not be a marble statue of him if Abraham Lincoln had said: Like four score and seven like years ago our fathers like brought forth on like this continent a new like nation, conceived in like liberty, and like dedicated to the like proposition that all men are created like equal. The people would have thought he was a babbling idiot.
The real problem is how to STOP the overuse of it. The only solution is to have all concerned go to their school systems English dept. or school boards and get the message out. We were taught in school never to use "ain't", why not the same with "like".
I agree. Use of 'like' is doubleplusungood.
This is how i deal with it:
Me: (to teenager) Have you got the time please?
Teenager: (glances at mobile) It's, uh, like fourteen twenty three..
Me: So what is it then?
Teenager: Just told you, man..
Me: You said its 'like' 14:23, so what actually is it, if its like 14:23?? 13:23?, 14:22?, 14:24?
Like, do we like not like it?
On one hand, I agree that "like" should not be used this way in speeches, reports, essays, or any other setting where only professional language is appropriate.
HOWEVER, it's pretty disgusting to suggest that someone who makes frequent use of colloquialisms in their day-to-day life is somehow "uneducated" as many of these comments suggest. I try to speak professionally when it is appropriate, but to say that everyone should speak like a scholar when in a public school or with their friends is unreasonable.
If you are so distracted by someone's use of common language that you don't listen to what they have to say, then it isn't their fault you didn't listen to them.
Get off of your high horse and start treating people with respect, rather than acting like a 70 year old man who can't get over "the kids these days with their 'sell-phones' and improper uses of words in their casual language"
I completely agree with you Robert, well said!
No one says you have to be a scholar. When people use the word "like" over and over and over they come across as being not too bright. It tells me that person can't come up with a better word. People who use it to excess don't even realize how frequently they use it and they think they can turn it off an on at will. But because it is a habit it carries over into their conversations at work, school etc. To me it shows immaturity.
Then bash the christ into them for gramnar sake
LIKE OH EM GEE where the Hell is the "LIKE" button on these comments? Like fershure….
A Clockwork Orange was like, 1972, not 1962…..like
The movie was 1972. The book was written ten years earlier.
It shows the continual ignorance of people, and the lack of care for proper grammar. Kids are so exposed to it, that they think it's acceptable grammar, and the proper way to talk. As an English professor, it's not allowed in my classrooms at all unless it's used properly. If someone does use it incorrectly, they drop a quarter in a jar on my desk, and get a lesson on the spot on why it's wrong. At the end of last semester, there was enough money to buy pizza for the entire staff. Teachers need to work on this with their students, and people should do as I do.. correct those who are using "like" in the wrong context. "Basically" is another .. I agree with Judge Judy, those are filler words that are totally unnecessary unless used properly.
Those are filler words that are TOTALLY unnecessary?
No need for the word TOTALLY.
Robert, I do agree with you how annoying the misuse of the word LIKE is, but you need to practice what you preach.
Robert's use of the word "totally" is acceptable as it has the function of placing emphasis. By Johnny's logic, one would have to remove many more words from otherwise correct discourse as they, too, could be deemed "unnecessary" to the overall intended meaning.
The use of the word 'totally' in this context is actually incorrect. 'Unnecessary' doesn't need intensifying; the subject is either unnecessary, or it's not.
As an Irish person living in California I am astonished at the trashy form of English spoken in general and I often wonder what kids learn in English class in school and how American speak developed to where it is. The overuse of "like" is the worst of all but there are many other examples. The word "amazing" is used so much to describe everything it has no meaning at all. "Freak out" is used for a whole range of widely different emotions (scare, worry, annoy, excite, delight…) and "ton" or "bunch" is used to refer to a large amount of something. So many words that should be used for proper English are not used at all. This happens everywhere, the vocabulary is so limited you can almost predict what a person is going to say.
So true. It drives me crazy.
This is what happens when the federal government gets involved in education. It also shows that our school system is pathetic.
Like, thank you Mr. Obama.
How on earth did you come around to blaming the government? Further, the involvement of the federal goverrment in education has no relationship to party affiliation. If you wish to make such a correlation, please show your work.
Like, do you like, not like it???
I adore Judge Judy,she's fantastic at her worst, there needs to be MANY more just like her sittting in courtrooms around this country. It's a shame she's not a felony criminal court judge, she'd stomp ass & not bother taking names, oh boy I can see it now…JJ- what were you arrested for? Dfndt-well I ummmJJ-SPEAK UP UNFOLD YOUR ARMS LOOK AT ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU AND DON'T MUMBLE! Oh whoops sorry I'm a bit of a legal/crime "junkie",who the Hell said Judge Judy anyway? Sheesh…get me wayyy off topic…OK I came here because I'm terribly confuzzeld about a word use in a sentence Bwagghhh… someone please help? Ok it is a response to a text message …the key sentence is"for myself & my elderly mother who/whom? Lives in California" I'm open to any other suggestions &/or advice
"I'll keep that in mind… although I am a little hesitant not to mention fearful…I'm sure you can empathize…Given the SEVERITY of the scene it created not only for MYSELF but for MY ELDERLY MOTHER who lives in CALIFORNIA the LAST TIME (12-25-15) I directly texted YOU asking YOU to move YOUR car…" boy oh boy… I can already hear the sirens…
I cringe when I hear the word used improperly. Shows the ignorance of today's youth and it is alarming. Being in retail, when I hear "like" used in a question such as "Where are like the flashlights?" I restate the questions in hope that the customer, usually a youngster, would learn from it. Truly bothers me.
It "bothers" you? It ANNOYS the HE!! out of me!! My daughter (27 y/o) uses it, as well as my boss, who's 53 y/o , the same age as myself.
My boss has a 28 y/o daughter. My boss usually comes to work on Monday, using the word "like" all day long. I think it's from a weekend spent, interacting with his daughter?
I will not tolerate it! When my daughters' friend's come over & use it, I have to excuse myself from the conversation 95% of the time. Why? Because my head will EXPLODE if I don't!
. . . my boss, . . . the same age as ME.
He is the same age as myself – wrong.
Come see myself after school – wrong.
My boss and myself were in a meeting – wrong.
I see myself in the mirror – correct.
I did it myself – correct.
I agree. Use of 'like' is doubleplusungood.
Where do you get off imposing a fine on your pupils for mistakes and then buying pizza for the staff?
Do you think you're a judge?
Do you make your pupils address you as "Your Honor"?
I'll wager you and the staff are making more than the parents and the taxpayers that are paying your salaries.
Who's policing your speech?
And like how many LIKES do you like get on Facebook?
I'm with you, Robert. I can't help it: it makes me squirm every time. I don't think I'm a snob. I was a journalism major once. Kansas State University: Go Wildcats!
Anne in Potsdam, NY
Great idea!!!
A great example of the degradation of language. It seemingly coincides with the dumbing down of American culture in general. Once I hear a teen or twenty-something get going with that word, it's all I can focus on when they speak, and I'm not even absorbing what they're saying otherwise. English teachers; UNITE against this one!!
I agree. I am a twenty-something and, while I use it improperly occasionally, it is terribly distracting when people use it constantly. I miss entire conversations because I can't focus on anything but the 'likes'.
Agree! We had Thanksgiving dinner with our family on Thursday, and all of the teens and early 20′s were full of "likes." A few used the word four or five times in one sentence! I began to count the number at one point and completely lost the gist of the conversation. These young people do not even realize they are saying it.
It's amazing how the word is misused during a job interview. I tend to not to hire any such person.
Hey UHHH …Social Surfer Dude…
LIKE WOAHHH DUDE…uh like we so did NOT like steal anYthingah like from the surFers… uh like the Uh… the SurFers like stole it from like US uhhh you guys like doNt EvEn gEt it…uhhh…Like uhhh gEt with it…
Valley Girl
I hope you tell the interviewee if you are ever asked why he/she did not get the job.
Once they get started, I just begin counting in my head and do not listen to the conversation. Once they stop, I just tell them the number, usually around 7-12, and ask them to tell me what they said again because I was not paying attention.
Yes, I have been in meetings where directors are speaking and I'll sit and count the Likes or the Ums. One director said Um, no kidding, 87 times. I thought I would lose my mind and I have no idea what he was talking about.
I'm not a grammar nazi by any stretch of the imagination and I don't mind the odd Like to substitute the word Maybe or Around but, like, for crying out loud, like, folks use it now, like, every couple of words like they can't fully commit to, like, the statement they are making. And it's crept into my beloved NPR, like, NNNNOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Exactly, Ralph! We are in big trouble. The interchangeable use of there, they're, and their, is similar. English teachers need to do a better job!
Agree Larry. I ended up on this page googling to find out where on earth the 'like' phenomenon came from. It's chronic here in South Australia – I presume it's American. But yes, the they're/there/their confusion is rife here too. I think our language is the poorer for this dumbing down.
It is more than just English teachers who needed to speak up, and it is far past too late at this point to do much. Unfortunately, well-intentioned but unaware young teachers were the carriers for this linguistic disease. Mothers and fathers are just as guilty – and frequently, also unaware.
I distinctly recall a moment of clarity while waiting in a taxi-line at LaGuardia Airport a decade or so ago, repeatedly finding myself aghast with the group of twenty or thirty fresh young Teach For America recruits just behind me. Each person in their group seemed to use "like" at least three times per sentence, some, many more. I knew that I would be facing a shifting and increasingly unpleasant linguistic landscape. Cut to my workplace ten years later at Columbia University, where the elite come to earn their credentials for the seats of power and prestige, and listen carefully as you pass students and teachers in conversation – only a tiny minority do not abuse "like" in the now-ubiquitous mode. We don't stand a chance. And we older folks have not been above infection.
Once this current generation of children/teens/twenty-somethings are in power, we will never hear the end of it, and the infection will sweep across future generations until something even more annoying comes along. My big question is – how can I overcome the personal distaste for the abuse, and accept it is part of the world I live in, while remaining sane?
From a UK perpective as an educator who teaches foreign students mostly from Asia and Europe, the over-use of 'like' is an absolute no-no- either in conversation or written work. I can't prove anything as to how or when this began, but I suspect it's from the USA, which in itself is not a problem (or 'issue'- another bugbear of mine).
Language evolves but in this case, the overuse of 'like' is to be discouraged, but I fear it's too late now…like it or not….
My grandson is 20 and is infected with like this, like that, like everything. AAAARGH! For what am I paying his tuition ?
Anne in Potsdam
I grew up in southern California surfing. These Valley girls stole surfer lingo, which was then appropriated by the rest of the U.S. and now the world. Give surfers there slang back!!!
- Socal Surfer
Please, you can have your damn word back. I was on a date, and this girl could not stop saying the word. I got up and left. I couldn't take it.
You can have it back.
I am ok with sporadic misuses of "like", we are all humans after all; but it more than annoys me is when overuse of like becomes the new form of language snobbery. As I'm typing this, I can think of a classmate in particular; it just seems that she derives pleasure from sprinkling "like's" all over her sentences.
I work with a mid-20s guy who overuses 'like' to the point that he sounds like a 13-year-old (girl) teenybopper. Listening to him I just want to slap him–good freaking Jesus on a tea tray, don't people know how moronic they sound when they do this?!?? In addition, if you ask him a question, he *always* starts his answer with "So…", which is another hair-puller in my book.
To use the word like out of context as a descriptive filler adjective in particular, is juvenile, embarrassing and lame….did I say annoying?
For me, most of the times, it sounds as lack of English language knowledge.
I wholeheartedly agree. It shows an absence of good vocabulary. It may have existed a long time before it started to annoy me, but I only really noticed it when the diabolical Spice Girls were first inflicted on us. Then, David Beckham used it as every other word and its use spread like wildfire in songs, comedians, celebrities on chat shows and in everyday conversation.
Even the immature paid people at Walmart are using 'like' in their online ads. Instead of using 'approximately' in their ads, they replaced it with 'like', which sounds stupid!
Like, $500
Doesn't that sound stupid?
Like, I understand where you're coming from!
I think it's important to improve your English knowledge and how you speak to people. This enables you to understand things better and makes one a more interesting person. Like, I hope you like my comments.
You guys rock! I totally get what you are all saying. Like, lets put it like this, like, this subject is awesome. Guys, I'm so liking that you all have addressed this. It's so lame, like… thanks guys!
I remember Frank Zappa's daughters song very well – Valley Girl. Where many words and phrases became established .. such as 'gag me with a spoon.' But there's one that has spread LIKE a disease to this day, and in other English speaking countries. Oops … I just said it. Like. At least I used it properly .. and not as a filler where it does not belong. This has spread to Australia where I now live. Teenage girls .. and women in their 20s who come to a Sushi Train restaurant I frequent.. and drive me crazy with saying the word "like" at least once or twice for every sentence they speak. These people never stop to realize how irritating it is. And it does not make them sound very intelligent. They don't get it. What is worse .. is when men say it. How about a guy in their mid 20s. Yes, I have one extended family member .. and I'm currently in his company. And I have to walk away … and can't say anything. He's driving me crazy. I'd love to know how to bring this up. And I thought I'd see if there's anything on what I call – A Nervous Speech Tick. It's as though they can't help it. And when I spoke to the mom about it .. she was more insulted by me bringing it up .. then acknowledging a problem .. where it's hard to be around this person and have an intelligent conversation. So, it's nice to see it's not just me. But others realize how immature, and so incredibly annoying it is … being in the company of someone who uses this word 20 times or more .. in 5 sentences. And no one brings it up. We are a society where we are suppose to be respectable, and not hurt or insult anyone. So no one develops a thick skin … and the family cries wolf … and I just have to walk away to keep my head from exploding.
a guy in HIS mid twenties…not their.
…was Insulted by MY bringing it up…not me bringing it up (It was the bringing up that insulted..
You sure told him or her off… nice going!
It's interesting that you pointed out those two when this person made a bunch of worse mistakes:
- "daughters song" should be "daughter's song"
- "then" should be "than"
- "suppose to" should be "supposed to"
Not to mention the misuse of ellipses and badly composed sentences. And I'm not even a native English speaker.
Mind you this doesn't only happen in English; "genre" is the French equivalent of the word "like"; "van", as I mentioned in one post I read about this "like" epidemic, is the German equivalent of "like".
Btw, I knew someone was going to point out your misuse of "me"!
I make certain (probably unfounded) assumptions about the lower intellect of those incorrectly using "like" yet I am completely desensitised to the over-proliferation of swear words in speech. It's possible that despite us knowing it's not appropriate over time "like" will suffer the same desensitisation prior to becoming generally accepted as correct language use.
[…] history of the popularity of using the word "like, outside of it's normal use as a verb or adjective, dates back to […]
. . . outside of ITS normal use . . .
It's means "it is" or"it has".
I recently left a lecture because the middle-aged speaker filled every sentence with 2-3 "likes." I know that to be accurate since I became so distracted by the "likes" that instead of listening to whatever it was he wanted to say, I began counting the number of "likes" per sentence.
On my way out the door — the lecturer looked at me curiously (my exit could not be missed), and I truly wanted to say: "Like I have to leave cause like I can't bear hearing one more "like" from you."
But I didn't, cause, like I was raised when society was — like — civil.
I'm "like", totally "like', agree…
Like far out !
The fact that you couldn't ignore the fillers is your problem. Not his.
True — however, *her* problem was created by *his* problem. In this case, if the speaker (lecturer) wanted to be taken seriously, then he/she should have attempted a more professional delivery in the presentation.
Like it really isn't.
Sorry, I don't believe you, eeky, what you're saying is totally bogus. Have you ever sat through a presentation like this–where the speaker had a horrible speech habit that was totally unnecessary–and felt that *you're* the one with a problem?
I'm remembering Maynard G. Krebbs from the Dobie Gillis sitcom. Maybe the early sixties? He used the word exactly as it is misused today. Also, in the late 50s, we briefly used "she goes" as "like" is used today…until our parents wouldn't let us in the door if the usage continues. Great piece. Thanks.
Yes, right on!
The bastardization of this horrid little word is more tragic than most here seem to realise. I am barely able to accept its overuse when someone speaks aloud (truth be told I want to slap them but I keep that a secret) but to see it actually typed in a forum scenario (imdb please stand up!) is beyond a joke. Not one for generalization, it appears to be the more vacuous and narcissistic members of society who are so deeply enamoured with its use. Half the comments here are by people who clearly think it's a humorous and natural evolvement in etymology. I strongly disagree.
Trump uses it in Tweets. Be very, very afraid.
Sadly, I think we are way too late to turn this linguistic tide, though.
Like OMG right? Like gosh. Like totally like whatever, like yeah. I talk like this everyday like totally yeah. LOL! LIKE TOTALLY LOL!! ttyl!
Like literaily it's alot worse in text then it is when you talk, because some people (including me) talk really fast and it just pops in there and you don't even notice until people tell you. But when you type it's not as fast so you don't use it that often as some of the above mocking comments. It's just a bad habbit!
"than" The word is "than" not "then." If you speak so fast that you constantly missuse the word "like" THEN your mouth is faster THAN your brain. You make a great example of why feeble minded folk incorrectly use the word like.
Thank you Dyllan.That is the same reason I was just logging in to comment But I disagree with the reason behind the Then/Than misuse – I think that that stems from sloppy speech.
Not surprisingly, those who misuse "like" in this way usually also have bad spelling and grammar.
When I see how flippant some of the comments above are with reference to the use of 'like' so much these days I despair for those of us who really care about speech and proper use of language. English is a beautiful language and it pains me to see how it's been managled particularly over the last twenty years or so.
Another great misuse of language is the reply we so often get when we ask 'How are you,' instead of 'fine, thank you,' which is concise and polite, we very often get the awful 'I'm good.' – another dreadful Americanism.
I call these people who overuse the word like all the time…"The Likers"
In my job, I spend a lot of time listening to people speak from all different walks of life and different parts of the country. I think Ginny is the one who really nailed it. Most people these days who are younger than 40, male and female, have been subconsciously programmed to talk in Valley Speak by their peers, television or their kids.
These Likers really have no clue. They are not even cognizant anymore of how many times they overuse the word like in their sentences. These days, if you ever talk to one of these robotic Valley Speakers, and you mention anything about how many times they say the word like, or "so"…they will usually get irritated or go hostile on you.
Back in the 90′s, The Likers were a small group and still had some shame about overusing the word because on a faint level they still had some awareness about it. The Likers these days are just flat out indignant about it and wear their Like Addiction as a badge and put it right in your face.
The ritualization of the word like is now cemented in modern culture and has become some kind of "linguistic rite of passage" into the 21st century. That's why there are so many middle-aged people now who are converting over to becoming Likers. Subconsciously they don't want to feel left out or excluded from everyone else in the Liker race.
Now Facebook has turned us all into Likers, with that little thumbs–up symbol for us to press if we happen to "like" what someone has posted.
The English language is, arguably, the greatest gift that the English nation has given to the world – purely due to the language's adaptbility and lexical diversity. After all, as someone who hearalds from this 'sceptered isle', I would be the first to say that we haven't offered much else! It is a language that, for all of the destructive forces of former imperialism, and the ensuing mess that such endeavours left, has been welcomed with open arms across the world. However, that is my problem with the increasing, pervasive and corrosive use of 'like'…
Many words that are adopted into the English language add to its diversity and range of expressiveness. The language's ability to adapt has enabled it to evolve and grow. Unfortunately though, this increasing use of 'like', coupled with accompanying gestures does nothing to enhance a language.
Using this simple word in place of the multitude of verbs that the English language offers isn't evolution – it's regression. It's nothing more than a grammatical cancer, supressing the use of the specific and soliciting social interaction to the lowest common denominator.
I fear that its near ubiquitous use now undermines the marvelous multifariousness that has endeared this language to millions across the world.
Did William Tindale really burn at the stake in 1536, in the cause of the then developing English language so that we could all once again see our speech subjected to a form of social reductionism – returning to not much more than the utterances and non-verbal gestures common to cave men? I think not…
Verily, perhaps this vichyssoise of verbiage has perhaps veered a little too verbose, but allow me me to add simply that for those who value our language, please, please join me and fight against this fashionable, virulent, vernacular virmin!
Double plus like!
I think its fine to use "like" in a sentence besides its usual usage as long as you don't act and overuse it like all those imfamous middle/high schoolers that talk/type like "YOUR LEIK TLLY ANNOYING AND STUFF, WHY DONT U LEIK JUST SHUT UPPPPP!" in their annoying sassy high pitched voices and their horrible grammar and improper usage of things like "You're". Surprisingly I haven't really met a real one even though I'm only just starting the 8th grade, but c'mon. we all know they exist.
really i dont think like should be used if unnessasary
all you people who have used the word like to introduce examples in the debate above should know that "such as" is considered more appropriate.
like is also used for comparisons in which the proper syntax should be followed. eg: like josepph, I…
Like Joseph's car, I…. would be considered wrong.
Like can also be used as a preposition when it is used to mean – "in a manner similar to." In such contexts like cannot be used to introduce clauses and the word "as" is considered more appropriate.
It's tru. There's really no need to say like all the time. I'm 13, and I hate it when my friends do it. I tell them that they sound really dumb, because there's no need to say like al the time!
Liza, I do exactly the same thing! Do people even listen what it is that they are saying? Personally, I think that, if a word is not necessary, you shouldn't use it.
Well, there are two fundamental uses for 'like'.
1. Attraction — I like her.
2. Similarity — A is like B.
It is sense two that has been wildly overused in modern speech. My thought is that we use 'like' to avoid 100% commitment to what we say. Since 'nothing is certain' and 'everything is relative', yet we simultaneously have an urge to express our opinions about a variety of topics, 'like' creeps into our language as a way to express a 'coating' of approximation.
That's why teenage talk is so rife with 'like'. They can say any old bullshit whilst justifying it with 'like'.
E.g. "I didn't ACTUALLY say that X is Y; I said that X is LIKE Y'.
The important thing is not the degree of similarity, but the fact that the statement is not indisputable fact.
Somebody, like, spelled notorious wrong.
I go to high school and have to listen to all the stupid girls in my class say "like" about 30 times per sentence. I don't care if you think I'm mean. Only stupid people need to use "like" as a spacer in their sentences because they can't think of what they're going to say before they say it. It's just aggravating. Spit it out!
I agree with Samael. It's completely inappropriate to say "like" as a spacefiller. Whenever I hear people use "like" incorrectly I glare at them and punch their arms (my dad did the same thing to me when I was younger). My friends have learned to think before speaking from this, something everyone should do. There are times when people say "like" so many times that I can't even understand what they're saying so I make them stop and start over (and even then it's not enough).
It also gets on my nerves when people who are professionals (like the English teachers at my school) say it. You would think that they know better than to do that. The spacefiller "like" is inappropriate in conversation; if you don't know what to say then don't say anything.
It is 6:39 pm and this is the first time today i have used the word like in a sentance.
I (ironically) hated the shield-stealing like-likes in the Legend of Zelda series until they became the awesome, ginormous, easy-to-avoid 3-D ones in Ocarina of Time … *chuckle*
Well, I don't even know what his Valley Girl thing is, but I say 'like' a lot, so I don't think it has anything to do with that. Hate it when like is used way to many times in a sentence. Once had a classmate who was giving a speech and every other word they would say 'like' to stall time because they didn't bother to memorize their speech.
I think people need to unbunch their knickers and accept that they have no control over common parlance, which is just as well because it fuels the evolution of language and if they were in charge we'd still be speaking ye olde Englishe, verily.
Language evolves, pedants do not.
Like cool comment dude. Its like you reaaly like put these pendants in like there place.. But do'nt like get all hung up on like evolution cause its like cool if its like devo like you know what i like mean? But four sure i and my like freinds like agree with you. If you want send me your like contact and we can like keep in like touch,
When I was a small child, in the late 1950s and early '60s, I recall a TV show my parents would watch, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." (It's now in syndication, and I've seen some of the reruns on a retro station, so I'm not simply going by memory here.) Bob Denver, who later achieved fame in "Gilligan's Island", played a supporting character in that show, Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik, who seemed to insert the word 'like' between almost every other word of any sentence he spoke. I don't know if this was typical of the beat generation as a whole, but I'd say Maynard had at least a couple of decades' headstart on the Valley Girls in his abuse of the word….
What is ironic is that the thesis statement uses the phrase "a lot" which is also regarded as a frequent mistake because it makes no sense XD
In colloquially terms, I think the word "like" is perfectly acceptable when used as a filler or expressing uncertainty. For example, if someone asked, "At what time is he arriving?" one could respond, "He's arriving at, like, 3:00." You wouldn't just say he's arriving at 3:00 if you are uncertain of his actual arrival time. Of course there are far better words that can be used to express uncertainty, but "like" sounds natural and, as Hayley said, allows you to connect with others on a more personal level. Inserting four-syllable words into a conversation makes you sound pompous, but using the word "like" makes you seem more genuine. "Like" used incorrectly obviously does not belong in the professional world, and it should never be used in essays, papers, etc. However, in friendly conversation I think it certainly has a place.
It's like (I'm using it properly, folks) the British overusing the word "right."
Blind man: "Right, how do I get to (insert location here)?"
Another man: "Right, you take a left on that road over there."
Blind man: "Wait, take a right where?"
Another man: "No, you take a left, right?"
Blind man: "Right…"
See how annoying it can be? Play the beer game while watching a British show!
Perhaps McD's should change their slogan from I'm lovin' it to I'm likin' it? XD
my teacher like gets so like mad when we like say like
Every one likes something
but it shouldn't be forced
On others to like…
Every gene has different taste
As every eyes
As every lips
As every ears
Sometimes we like someone…something
with our ears…
Which applies on music…
Telephone calls…
And some they like an ugly face
because they find something in thems
Those others'… can't see!
i accidentally say 'like' when i should say 'for instance,'
There is an equivalent in French, "en fait."
It's translation would be 'actually' in English, but people use it too much, IMO.
As an author and a teenager, I am torn on this subject.
It's acceptable to an extent, but is not correct grammar and should not be used in professional speech (books, essays, office meetings, ect.).
That is only my opinion.
"Like" is tricky. You sound vapid if you throw it in every other syllable, but if you stubbornly refuse to use it, ever, you can end up sounding stilted and pretentious to others.
I use it; I think it helps us to connect with people. It's not exactly friendly to proclaim that you think "like" is the first sign of the deterioration of society, and watch, aloof, as all of your friends stumble over their speech, trying to sound 'good enough' for you.
Where is the "like" button?
Y'all are,like, impaired somehow if you dion't intuit my deeper meaning when i use "like" that way.
Uh, "like" is not a phrase.
I think that LIKE should be used properly, as in the phrase "I like you." Other phrases LIKE: "I like to go to the Bahamas for the warmth." etc, as acceptible.
I think also, that LIKE being used the way it is used today, and the usage of it that plainly goes over the deep-end, is really foolish. It only shows how uneducated, as well as 'willing to look foolish' people can be in order to be accepted.
Personally, it seems to me that that type of 'talk', runs right along with the foolishness of people dressing in 'fashion', no matter how foolish, and other things that make them look like they have never had an original thought or action in their lives.
I've never really been on board with using 'like' in a sentence too often; apart from a preposition or a verb, and it really annoys me when people speak otherwise. They sound very uneducated.
As much as we try to reduce the use of them, profane words are bound to exist in any language. Though it may be considered profane, the f-word is quite an interesting word linguistically speaking, appearing in the corpus as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, interjection, and even more that I could even fathom. There are even phonetic rules as to where in in a word in can be inserted e.g "That's fan-f'ing-tastic" not "That's fantas -f'ing-tic." Though this blog is meant to be family friendly (though the comments are exceptions), It would be interesting to know how the word come into the language, and like the infamous "like", why can it take the place of so many parts of speech.
I used to play the bala-like-uh.
Personally, I think people who use like in such an incorrect manner should have their tongue cut out, or at least tied in a knot. {Only partly facetiously stated.}
Agreed – this is dialect English. It is said in deference to the listener and shows an endearing lack of confidence. At the grammar school it was so entirely disapproved of that it became taboo.
Just like 'say to' sounds weird and it should be 'to say', 'like' isn't used in a syntactic order that doesn't sound right. Tt is rule governed.
I think it's silly for people say to 'like should only be used as a verb or preposition' and 'a little bit of rules in a language is necessary'. Like is extremely rule governed in our language. If you were to analyse where is occurs syntactically it doesn't just occur 'anywhere' and as any type of word-class. So it is not a filler and it is not useless, otherwise it wouldn't be used. Current perceptions of the use of the word 'like' are really no different than perceived prestige of some language varieties. However, hopefully it will change.
in scotland we say 'like' at the end of sentences quite often, like. the southern english stereotype of the geordie uses this same phenomenon. im finding it hard to describe how it is used but i can give examples; for example if my pal said he couldnt come out on friday night any more i would say 'how, what's up, like?' and if he responded saying that he had to stay in and do uni work i would say 'still not done your essay, like?'
if that helps, like…
this is just a feature of a dialect of english. if other dialects don't use it or consider it wrong then they can get it up the, along with their pretensions.
Robert, I like the Scots use of like, and think it's quite different from the dumbed-doon bimbo Valley-Speak Atrocity that plagues the AmericoCentric world. I would distinguish between honest dialect and the modern half-arsed "canna be bothered spikking properly" conformity. Sloppy language, sloppy thought. If your car starts firing on three cylinders, dinnae ca' that evolving…it's deteriorating.
It might be less common, but here in South Yorkshire, we edffo use "Like" at the end of sentences and sentence fragments. And I know they do it in Greater Manchester and Merseyside as well. I think it's just a Northern English thing generally as well as as Scottish.
You people are so annoying. Use the correct usage of "like" or don't use it at all!
Well we all SAY 'like', but we actually write down 'like' in a sentence other than using it as a n opinion, so i dont see the problem really…I like, say like alot
Awww, come one guys! Don't blame us SoCal folks for our "bad grammar." We're pretty intelligent people! We just like to spice up our conversations and make other boring strict grammar lords and ladies laugh. Like, is an awesome word. And slang, if you haven't noticed, is a part of society. Face it, it'll always be around!!
I hesitated reading the comments because I knew people were going to run "like" into the ground. And I was right. Thanks to the few that replied to the post without belaboring the point. Monica & Joey (ha are y'all "friends" I too like like on FB. Now I have used it more than 1ce. %-/
Haven't you forgotten someone? Weekly, on the 60s sitcom "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," Bob Denver treated us to his portrayal of the little beatnik Maynard G. Krebs. "Like, wow." His character may have done more to put this usage of 'Like' in the lexicon of my generation–and possibly the subsequent "Nick at Nite" generation–than your other references combined.
Old enough to not have been particularly influenced by a pop singer's slang, I think "like" is today much over-used. Speakers especially use "like" carelessly as it seems to fill in for a lack of interest in more accurate, descriptive, and less boring speaking. The under 35 crowd use "like" as a code word of social awareness and groupie acceptance. As with any word in the language, its overuse dulls the listener's attention and displays a cavalier attitude toward clarity and empathy to listeners or readers who quickly tire of droning repetitive slang.
Have I ever used "like" in speaking? Yes today, and if I recall, once in 2005.
yeah i use to read readers digest too.
IMDB: Clockwork Orange: 1971
A Clockwork Orange was *published* in 1962.
i use "like" like for ever and i don't think any thing is wrong with like
Use it as you see fit. Language is ever-evolving.
Also; popularised in 1982? Did no-one like, watch Scooby Doo before that? Shaggy like says it all the time!
I agree with "like" should be use only as verb and preposition. As an English language learner I feel it is more comprehensive in use. Since English has always been the easiest language to learn, If you make this word so extensive will make it confusing, and also without structure. Simplicty dosen't mean disorder in a language, I mean a little bit of rules in a language is always necesary. But do what ever you want woth a word is "like" licentiousness
like this is totally likeable i mean like this is soooooooooooo weird
My mother got so sick of hearing "like" used as a filler word that she instituted a 25-cent fine for using "like" as a filler. Doesn't sound like much of a deterrent, but when one only gets paid $5 every other week (if one is lucky), twenty-five cents adds up pretty quickly. (The best part was that if we caught her using "like" as a filler, *we* got the twenty-five cents!)
Like should only be used as an expression, not as an interjection.
Using the word "like" multiple times in a series of sentences just gives the impression that the "liker" may be one of the following: uneducated, unpolished, immature, not a "word" person, one who does not read much, you get the point. That said, I am an outgoing, extemporaneous, friendly kind of person who desires to give an impression of an educated background. I am quite certain that when I am excited about a story I am relaying, I am guilty, but the use of like as a slang has now come to my attention, so I am going to determine myself not to say "like" unless I want to express that I like Hostess orange Twinkees. But that isn't really true because I LOVE them. Now there's another debatable word usage. We say we love everything from our lovers to our new nail polish, but at least we're using the word properly. It is an understood acceptance in our culture to express love for whatever we wish, even if the depth of the word is vast with our usage. The object of the verb is the key – love has many meanings, too bad there are not more words for this feeling, as in other languages. Well, I digressed, isn't that just like me?
@Rachel: I think that anyone who is around 30 y/o now was probably a baby at the time of Valley Girls and not affected; however, I'm not like totally sure what you were trying to say, so I might just be like, way off, like base here.
I think you said those who were 30 & under were influenced by the Valley Girls and then said something else about 30 y/o, which I took to mean those who are that age now.
Too many "like, you knows" or "ums & ahs" or "ok's" or whatever interjection someone might come up with in any conversation/speech becomes annoying and difficult to listen to. It also makes the speaker sound, as someone pointed out, juvenile and in some cases, not very bright.
I'm guilty of misuse myself and recall being told in Jr. High that "And he was like…" was incorrect that I should say, "And he said…" I have tried to be cognizant of that as much as possible–especially in professional situations.
It is fascinating to learn the origins of this over usage DIDN'T start in the 80′s!
Another very bad habit that people have slipped into is the sloppy truncated spelling used in txt msg! It's seeped into everything! Please save it for text messages! IDW to decode everything I read because people are too lazy to spell words out. OMG, IDK what IDW means! (I don't want)
I do believe there are numerous posts above with syntactic and spelling errors. Spelling is an important part of good wordsmith's toolbox.
I'm sorry, but like, I think like the movie, "Clueless", like, left us all, like, stupid……….
Me think it's for people that seek for an easier way out when they are entangled in the web of the appropriate use of a particular word.
However, it's not a bad idea, though frequent use of it can make irritatingly abusive.
What I learned on this post is that I are a self proclaimed linguistics snob myself. And that I are the grammar police for my students. I won't use "like" as a linguistics filler. Whenever I quick-search the right word while speaking, I used to wipe my glasses in order to gain some more time.
Did you mean to say when you are searching for the "correct" word?
Borghese, FYI, A Clockwork Orange the movie came out in 1972, A Clockwork Orange the novella was written in 1962.. because you do know it was first written, then turned into a movie, right?
We were referring to the book, and not the movie.
Scooby-Doo's friend Shaggy says like a lot too, in the cartoons anyway, not sure about the movie though…
Like, I like, like this likeable article about like, like! Seriously, Hot Word, it isn't always used like that. However, it is true that it is a very commonly used word. Like has various meanings, which explains why you're always hearing it in different contexts. Sometimes it means "to have a passion for; adore; love", whereas there are other times when it means "similar to (She is just like her identical twin)". Then there is the more informal meaning, which is just a piece of "garnish" – "Like, she was saying, 'I can't believe what happened!' ". Like is also used informally in contexts like "He was like, 'Oh no! I forgot it! Oh no!' ". It's amazing how English speakers have this way of twisting the English language. 99% of you could make a resolution not to say like (especially informally), but would end up saying it again. That's just life.
I think most people misuses the word like, like wise i myself talking.
I think you made like, a small mistake on your facts; "A Clockwork Orange" came out in 1972, not 1962.
Like you know whatever…
I use "like" all the time, but it feels weird to write it out.
Once someone uses the word "like" around 3 times in a fairly short duration I simply ignore what they have to say and begin to count the amount of times "like" is used for my own personal amusement.
1. It will be best to dispose first of what is, if it is a misuse at all, the most flagrant and easily recognizable misuse of like. A sentence from Darwin quoted in the OED contains it in a short and unmistakable form: Unfortunately few have observed like you have done. Every illiterate person uses this construction daily; it is the established way of putting the thing among all who have not been taught to avoid it; the substitution of as for like in their sentences would sound artificial. Besides the Darwin quoted above, the OED gives indisputable examples from Shakespeare, Southey, Newman, Morris and other writers of standing. It remains to give a few newspaper example so that there may be no mistake about what the vulgar or slovenly use in its simplest form is: – Or can these tickets be kept ( like the sugar cards were ) by the retailer? The retail price can never reach a prohibitive figure like petrol has done. Wasub's words sank into Lingard's heart like lead sinks into water. They studied the rules of a game like a lawyer would study an imperfectly-drawn-up will.
2. The rest of this article is intended for those who decide against the conjunctional use that has been already discussed and are prepared to avoid also some misuses of a less easily recognizable kind. Of sentences in which like is not followed by a verb, certain forms are unexceptionable, but are liable to extensions that are not so. The unquestioned forms are He talks like an expert and you are treating me like a fool, in which like is equivalent to a prepositional adverb = similarly to; and you, like me, are disappointed, in which like is equivalent either to an adverb as before, or perhaps rather to a prepositional adjective.
3) People get alarmed on each occasion on which ( like the present case ) dying children suddenly appear. He has completed a new work in which, like its author's recent books, no failing in sparkle or vigor will be traceable.
4) Like his Roman predecessor, his private life was profligate; like Antony, he was an insatiate gambler.
Like. In formations intended as nonce-words, or not generally current, the hyphen is ordinarily used" . I would like. Even on those who use should and would idiomatically under all ordinary temptations the verb like seems to exercise a corrupting influence; a couple of examples follow pro forma, but anyone can find as many as he pleases with every little search: We would like to ask one or two questions on our own account. There is one paragraph in it that I would like to refer to. If the shall and will idiom is worth preserving at all, I would like is wrong, and I should like is right.
What is like so wrong about like, using like? I think it could be like, used, like basically anywhere except formal essays!
OK I think this is what I was going to say b4. "Like" is OK with me as long as it's not like how you did it pete. But that was like totally funny. FYI, I usually don't use like as many time in writing or speaking as many times as i did. but i thought this would be a good exception. Bye and go Lord of the Rings!
"Like all that is gold does not like glitter, like not all that like wander are like lost."
LOL Bye
I like still haven't remembered my original comment.
If you don't mind sounding like a ditzy teenage girl, then go ahead and use it just as long as you're aware of how it fits into your speech. Although, I must say that I can't stand the fact that the word "like" has replaced any other word that indicates speech. It drives me crazy! On the other hand, forms of conversation like this have the ability to contain a time period within themselves which can be a good tool for style when writing. I guess it doesn't really matter in the long run.
I like still haven't remembered what I was like originally going to like say.
I like forgot what I was like going to say so I'll like tell you when I like remember it. Like OK?
People use "like" frequently to add style to their speech; to make it unique.
People also use many other words to do this such as "all," "whatever," "just," "so," "okay," "mhm," and the everfamous "uhhh." Remember Mr. Mackey, mmkay? Think about your friends. I bet they all have quirky little things in their speech, whether it's the frequent use of a word or phrase, unnecessary pauses, varying pitch, or a distinguishing emphasis on certain letter sounds; everybody has something. "Like" is just like, another one of those things.
i think the kind of likes that are acceptable to use in ways are "like" when your explaining something.i think people who use like in a inproper used sentence "like" in a popular way are always going to use the word like addiction.using like in an good way is acceptable but not in a bad way.
watch out for those likes if you "like" too
I think its fine on LIKE, facebook, but when you LIKE, are writing a formal peice, don't use it.
Like, I like the like but i cant believe that like is like a slang word…..like when have we figured this out?
Like is a word used for similes. I only use it in dialogue when I write. Check me out! I'm 13! And I don't use the word "like"! Suck on that, slang-itopians!
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I, like, use 'like' every single, like, day. OMG I'm, like, doing it again! Kay, well, that was, like, a cool article. ARRRRGH!
Just think of it this way. Whenever you're talking to someone who places the word "Like" two or three times within the same sentence, they're obviously a little special. You should feel sorry for them, not degrade their inability to speak like a normal person.. You know, with a brain.
Technically "Like" is a filler so if you talk too fast (as I do) then you will most likely every once in a while say "Like" by accident. It happens the same way that saying "Um" occurs; when intelligent words are yet to have formed in your mouth you sometimes say a filler as not to have a break in your sentence.
*You Now, like, Have Gained, um, Knowledge From The, like, Amazing Lydia*
My family HATES when I say "like" a bunch of times in a sentence. It drives em', like, crazy.
Just last night I was cringing as my wife interjected "like" at least three times per sentence when talking with my parents. I was thinking it would be fun to record her, bring the sound file into Garageband, and remove all the sound except the likes. I decided against it when I realized it could be grounds for separation
While it may be irritating to some who consider themselves linguistic specialists/language snobs, when studying linguistics at university we were told to be descriptive, not prescriptive…to study how people use language, not to tell people how language should be used. Language, like everything else, will evolve along it's own lines.
i, like, really dont think it matters….
You stop saying "like: right meow!
Meow, I'm gonna have to give you a ticket on this one. No buts meow. It's the Grammar law.
I think it's definitely okay to say "like" when you're trying to describe something, for example: "It's like a German Shepherd-Great Dane-Poodle mix" or "It's one of those things she does just to like, get attention." It may not be grammatically correct, but that's the way I've been using it for a while…
I don't think it's okay to just use it completely randomly, for example: "Like, thanks so much for like, letting me come to Door County with you!"
Ollie: If the first example is referring to that breed of mutt, leave out "like". If it is referring to a /similar/ mutt, then use "similar to", "a kind of", "akin to", . . .
Your second example definitely does not require "like".
@Ginny: A shock collar could work lol
While I am personally aggravated by constant use of the word like, there are certain circumstances where I can understand its use. When people are only interjecting like because they aren't sure enough of their speech to continue fluidly, I will admit I grow quite irritated, quite quickly.
However, the one acceptable use of the word like– apart from the 'by definition' use– is in cases of reiterating a conversation to another person.
For example, if I'm telling a story and I say how "He was like, 'blah blah blah such-and-such,'" I don't wish to be interrupted to have my listener ask me if he said that, or if he was like that. Frankly, I feel that if I use the phrase 'he said' as a preface, it implies that he did, verbatim, say that. In the context, I'm only relating something along the lines of, or the essence of, what he said. Personally, it seems that 'he was like,' makes it clear that I'm giving an overview, not a story with absolutely perfect recall.
Ha ha… this is funny because my friend and I like, just had a contest today where we could see like, how many times we could use "like" in a sentence. We were like "Like is like, so fun to like, say because like, it's like, cool and like, stuff."
once when i was in the 5th grade this kid whos name i can't recall couldn;t go one sentence without saying "like"
I have a friend who frequently speaks in simile. It's like, really annoying.
It's no big deal. I think interjections are fine. After all, "hello" is also an interjection, why doesn't anyone object to it?
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This use of "like" is a sign of insecurity in one's own communication ability. If you mentally replace it with "something to the effect of…" each time it's used, you'll get the intent. It's used by people who lack confidence in their communication skills, or don't want to appear in front of their peers that they have a greater vocabulary than the "gang". That's, like, the gist of it.
Even though all of the cited uses of "like" have become commonplace, I still find myself cringing when I hear a supposedly educated adult say, "And I was like….."
To me, it's the linguistic equivalent of wearing sneakers with a business suit.
Like should not be used unless it's usage is in a simile or it could be replaced with the word approxiamately. (unless it's used as a noun) I rest my case!!!!!
Hah! When I was a kid my mother cautioned against using 'like' instead of 'as.' There was much discussion over the cigarette ad which proclaimed "Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should." Language changes. Ya can't stop it.
To me, improper and frequent use of the word "like" in daily speech signals a couple of things: First, it demonstrates difficulty with accurately expressing one's thoughts in words – a common problem. Second, it demonstrates difficulty with LISTENING – to others as well as to oneself, which is also a common problem. My advice to anyone who uses the word to the point that it irritates and distracts those of us without that habit is to speak less and listen more. After all, we have two ears and one mouth. Our listening versus speaking ratio should ideally be the same.
The misuse of the word "like" is one of my worst pet peeves. "I think the guitar is so, like, overused" is an example of a sentence misusing the word "like". "Like many people, I can play a musical instrument" is an example of the proper use of "like". Another good use for "like" is "I like you".
Like is fine with me!
To say something is "like" something else implies a comparison, even if the subject of the sentence is the latter object and there is no object being compared. My inner grammar police only blare the sirens when I hear it used as an empty comparison — "This was, like, totally unfair." Oh, it was only LIKE it was unfair? It wasn't actually unfair? Well, okay then.
Of course, ANY word quickly loses its appeal if used repetitively, and "like" has a tendency to occur some sixty to eighty times in the average two minute conversation with some girls in this area — and believe it or not, it's not southern California and these aren't valley girls we're talking about. "No, like, she was like, 'That's so totally like messed up,' and I was like, 'Gee, Tonya, like, that's so, like, totally like right. Like really!' "
*Whoop whoop* PULL OVER THE VEHICLE. DO NOT PERSIST IN THIS CONVERSATION. ANYTHING YOU SAY WILL MOST DEFINITELY BE HELD AGAINST YOU.
I don't, like, mind it as long as, like, the punctuation is all, like, correct and stuff.
Krista, I think you meant "as a slang interjection", not "injection". That would be an entirely different issue cause for concern!
Actually, "like" sounds just as appropriate as "uh" when you're searching for the next word in your sentence. Either can become annoying. (I must confess, I've scattered some "uh's" through my conversations during my 75 years.)
As long as you are happy with your understanding of what was said, the official correctness of what was said (in short, grammar) doesn't really matter.
likee, really
I love your website. I think you make a point here. "Like" is a very vague word to me. If you use it like this: I was like no way. I think its unnecessary and it's just too wordy.
I love this. A couple of weeks ago I challenged my friends to go a day without using "like" as a slang injection. They had failed within the first two hours, but are now aware of how often they use "like."
idc if people use the word like or not. if they choose to say like for every other word, than that's them.
I use the word "like" EVERY SINGLE. DAY!!!!!!
I really need to stop!
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Any form of "like" should be acceptable. Not in formal writing or speech, of course. Crossing the line occurs when, just like the famous F-word, it is used more than once per sentence (unit of thought.) Then it's just downright vulgar. (Can you imagine a day when "like" is just as bad as the F-word? I'm tickled just thinking about it!)
Its a stalling tactic, it gives your head an extra second to string your thoughts together for proper expulsion while keeping your momentum so you dont trip over your tongue, similar to "Uh"s and "Umm"s.
Its like, like idling your car. Effectivly its just hot air and some people get all offended over the exhaust, but on a cold morning it really really helps.
"…a cartoon in the "New Yorker" that depicts two *woman* discussing a man's workspace…"
It ought to have been "women." Noted. Thanks.
Shaggy misuses that word alot.
sure it's acceptable–but as teens, we over-use 'like' as a filler–i've found myself saying "like, yeah, but like, i'm mean it's like," and then i want to slap myself because i'm annoying myself.
NO matter how this word appeal in there end for me this is still acceptable and can be use anywhere..
I like that like the word like is like really like , you know like cool word. I like use it like all the time like really. My friends use like like all the time to. Like is like is just a commonly like used word. Like tell me you don't use like and like you'll be like lying to me. Hee Hee. Lol : )
Yea i have to agree with monica lol, i like the like on face book.
I am 16 and far from a 'snob' and I use it daily and at least five times a sentence. It's so habitual, I don't even, like, notice it! Everyone of my peers does to, from gangsters to rockers, etc.
I'm so guilty of using like in the wrong way….. my mom always tells me to stop
like i like always like use like!!
yea, like, seriously, it's fine to like say the word 'like' whenever you feel it fits the sentence…
I ,like, totally agree with Tim!
I like loved this like article. Like who knew there was a history behind like? I mean like are you for real. I like thought it was oly us like teenagers who said like. Wow! Like wow suprise suprise!! Like how freakin unbelievable
If you look at research studies on the use of 'like' there is some evidence to suggest that the Valley Girl movie had an impact on its popularity today. (For instance, people who were 30 years old and younger were significantly more likely to use 'like' and these 30 year olds were teenagers at the time of 'Valley Girl'). In addition, a Linguist would most likely not contend that a particular usage of a word was 'wrong' or 'used where it doesn't belong', especially if it was used systematically in the language. It's simply different than how it was used in the past but language change is an inevitable feature of language. There likely should be less stigma in the use of 'like' given its popularity and perceived acceptance, however this is not the case. Good message, thank you for your post.
'like' is used when your not completley sure, or when something is 'sora'
I find myself using "like" or "was like" in the place of "say" or "said." For example, "I was like, 'Don't ever do that again.'" It sounds very middle school-ish, and since I've been saying it that way since around middle school, it's so ingrained, that I know I say it all the time without realizing it. I cringe when I do manage to catch myself saying it, but it takes a conscious effort to say it correctly, and it only lasts for a few minutes before I'm right back to using "like." It irritates me that I sound so juvenile, but short of having a shock collar that goes off when I do it, I'm not sure how to fix it permanently.
when you stated, "The notorius usage of "like"", i do believe you made a typo. 'Notorius' should have read, 'Notorious'. am i correct (if not, bold) in pointing that out?
It is acceptable in some places, but when a person speech is littered with it "I'm like, 'Whatever' and then he's like, 'Fine' and then she's like, 'Sure' and then it's like 'What do we do?'" That gets irritating. If you throw in a lot of "you know," then I ususally zone out on what the person's saying and start counting all the "like" and "you know."
Well I think it is bad in terms of grammer, it means you're thinking while you're speaking when you use -like-. Like, don't you get it?
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"Like" should only like be used like as a preposition or like as a verb. Like like should not like be used like any other kind of like type of speech. Like like is so over like used like today, regardless of like how much it was like used like years ago or even like when it was like used. Like like should never be like used more than like once in a like sentence unless it is like used as one of the like afore like mentioned. Like my initial like entry on like Facebook was like way too long, so like I had to like split it like in two. I wanted to like put it like all up at like once, but like FB like told me that like my entry was like 467 characters and I like only could like use like 420 characters.
Hehe! Like is like tottally awsome so like respect the like like. Like thanks!
"YOU & everyone else here using the word in their comment think it's funny. It is not funny.
Be part of the solution… not the problem." – Lighten up Francis
Like all are acceptable and like none should be discouraged.
The use of "like" on FaceBook is perfectly acceptable to me. Hee hee. Using it in any other ways (aside from proper grammar) is just plain irritating though!
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*If you didn't get it, I was making a reference to the SEA, Pranksters by referencing knots, which I think are some sort of sea thingy, or maybe they're actually not. I could be referring to DON KNOTS who isn't from the sea, I don't think. He could be a Poseidon for all I fucking know. I'm still half tripping from the Dramamine, which should come with the label "WILL FUCK YOUR SHIT UP, BITCHES."
I want a sandwich. And a snowcone. Actually, I want a snowcone sandwich.
Anyway, so I am back from my cruise and let me tell you that it was FULL of the awesome. Technically, it was a WORKING vacation, and Angie and I have come up with a fantastic idea which I will reveal tomorrow when the walls stop moving and I stop walking into my dogs.
So we were on a motherfucking boat wearing our flippy-flops, with apologies AND accolades to T-Pain, which is sort of like a traveling NASCAR fan hotel with all of the assorted classiness and hilarity that went along with it. I'm telling you that people watching cannot be better anywhere.
I got my first decent massage AND my first taste of true bad taste on the trip.
The massage was by a British woman and she was alarmed by the state of my stress level (an 8)(what, is that bad?) and the state of my back. Apparently, it was all kinds of tight and wound up and that's apparently bad. Pretty much, she said that I would die unless I got more regular massages and stopped being so stressed out and maybe took better care of myself.
I tried to interject with "does Vicodin count as a stress reliever?" but then she sort of laid on my back with her elbows and I wept in pain and couldn't speak. Or I could, but it would be a scream. I tried to make her tell me that my back was "knotty" so that she'd say something like, "Oooh, Rebecca, you KNOTTY girl," and maybe then smack me around, but no such luck.
Just more of the elbows and threats of reducing my stress or "death." WhatEVER.
The ship wasn't exactly decorated from this era. In fact, it's pretty much the LAST sort of decor that you want to see if you're drunk and/or seasick, but it's pretty much full of the hilarious. Brightly patterned carpets and brass and wall paper and colors! every! where!
It's going to be vintage soon.
The worst place that I found was this: a HAND bar. I want whatever they were smoking when they decided that THIS was a great concept for a bar, because it had to be strong.
So you're walking down the way and you see THIS:
Two giant hands. I assumed, nail salon. TACKY nail salon, but nail salon. Nope. The strains of a bad keyboard player ministering to a group of cougars wafted out and I could make out "My Girl." Badly.
I was intrigued.
THAT is over the bar. I cannot impart how scary that looks. It's a gigantic hand. Over the bar. What. The. Fuck.
The horrible keyboard player belts out shitty songs and drunken cougars vie for his attention and suddenly I'm horrified AND embarrassed.
The wall is home to the handprints of his conquests? OR VICTIMS…
The fingers wave creepily as I back out of the bar, happy to have escaped with my hands intact.
I'll never listen to "My Girl" the same way again.
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Well, Don Knotts played a fish in that movie, or a man who became a fish, or a fish who had bad vision so wore glasses – my childhood memories are a little fuzzy, kinda like if I'd had some dramamine, but only because my brain decided to learn all the words to the first two Spice Girls albums and chuck all that useless kid stuff. Though that'll totally be worth it when either the Spice Girls become huge again or the ghost of Ed McMahon knocks on my door with some weird combination of a sweepstakes and Don't Forget the Lyrics, pop girl group edition. I'm sorry, why was I talking about Don Knotts again?
I often think there should be a "People of Walmart" type site devoted to cruise ship passengers… top notch people watching, for sure.
Glad you had a good time…scary hand bar or no!
The level of Awesome we witnessed is so palpable, I'm pretty sure people felt it on land.
PS the stools look like tampons. That makes it all better, right?
Did you notice that all the hand prints in the bathroom are all the exact same shape? They used a stencil for the hands? Really? Where's the love?!
What cruise line were you on? The S.S. Scaryass?
The fingers pointing up around the bar are my favorite part! Who the hell designed that and more importantly when?
Glad you took pictures..no amount of story telling could have depicted that!
holy crap that is fuh-reaky! Unattached hands creep me the eff out. Like Thing from the The Addams Family. I get the shakes seeing him scuttle across the floor. *shudder*
Those fingers around the bar look threatening, like, "I dare you to sit on this stool. I swear I won't jam a giant, pointy fingernail in your bumhole, if you do."
I can't believe that's actually real. I think I will have a nightmare involving this very scene pictured above. What might make it a bit scarier is if a guy in a faux tuxedo shirt and sporting a mullet was in one of the frames.
Sounds like a great time. I took a cruise for college. It was for college credit. It was a great time.
Apparently, you went to the GREATEST COLLEGE IN THE WORLD.
Uhm, that shiz makes me feel seasick and I'm sitting on my couch.
Holy shizz. I thought that cruise ships were classy and pretty! That is bargain basement crap they picked up when the local nail school went out of business. Damn.
Ok, finger bar stools? That is some scary stuff. Its all sorts of perverted.
Oh my good god. A hand bar? What the? I don't want to get fingered WHILE I'm getting drunk, thankyouverymuch. I'd rather wait until after I get slammed.
OMG! That is incredibly freaky! I've been on cruises and have never encountered anything like that.
Because seriously, that would make my cruise stories much more interesting.
Okay, traumatized. Seriously.
BUT SO GLAD YOU EXPERIENCED A GOOD MASSAGE! Hurray for an LMT that knows what she was doing!
Wow, scary indeed. Must have felt like you had already taken a couple of vicodin just walking into the place! My friend recently got back from a cruise and was dizzy for a couple of weeks!
Wow. Just wow. That bar is so freaky, I don't even know what to say. I went on a cruise, and while it was a bit garishly decorated and cheesy, it does not even come close to whatever you would call THAT. I think I may have nightmares too. . But massage, okay, NOW we're talkin!!!!! Any trip that involves a massage instantly becomes an awesome vacation. I'm now jealous again. Can't wait to hear your big idea. 🙂
Too bad he wasn't playing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" instead.
Niiiiice! But you should get more massages, I think.
I agree with Elly Lou – the stools do look like tampons!
welcome back welcome back!!
that hand bar? TOTALLY creepy. I might have nightmares about it.
Ooh, my friends and I were on that boat (or a very similar one) about 10 years ago. I remember the hand bar well. We thought the overall decor was just like we envisioned things to look like in a Jackie Collins novel.
Maybe the bar was decorated by Dexter's brother. You know, before Dexter killed him and all.
Glad you had a good time!!! 🙂
That's one motherfucking boat!
The hand bar is all sorts of funky and frightening. Best laugh all day! Thanks and I'm glad you are safely home.
I think that bar would give me nightmares.
Welcome home.
Give's a whole new meaning to 'hand job'….yikes.
That bar!!! O!M!G!
It's creepy and it's kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
It's all together ooky!
I just had my first good massage too! She told me I needed to have them every month. Hmm….sounds like a massage pyramid scheme to me.
You took a cruise to the Twilight Zone, didn't you? Holy crap, I would have headed for the nearest lifeboat.
WTF were they thinking?? I have a "leg lamp" from Christmas Story in my living room so Im down with crazy stuff just for the hell of it, but thats a little over the line, even for me….wow
And I thought *my* cruise ship (at its bargain basement rate) was full of brass and bad patterns. I've never seen such a scary cruise bar. Not even when I was chased by the strange Phillipino staff because I was the only woman under 65.
I'm thinking of the "helping hands" scene from "The Labyrinth." Yeah, first-class weird.
Perhaps the idea was to ease the pain of getting groped there? Bwahaha.
holy shit that is weird!
BINGO! Nail Salon. Would have been WAY better.
At least they weren't trying to fist you, I guess. Scary hands. Very scary.
I will have nightmares.
Dude I feel like I am on acid or something when I look at these pictures- of maybe like I've had 6 drinks (which I mean come it's 3pm, I only had 3 drinks). Wow I am surprised that they don't have suicide prevention pamphlets after people leave that place.
it reminds me of the bar in clockwork orange…..there were giant hands to sit on and plastic molds of girls on their hands and knees for coffee tables. can't beat the food on the cruise tho and the booze…..
I know I took a muscle relaxer a few minutes ago, but really, this is legit? I'm totally thinking I am just hallucinating it. Can we just pretend that it really is just one big Flexeril induced hallucination?
Obviously I'm not doing enough drugs.
At least it wasn't feet. Because feet are gross. Or butts. Butts should never get that big. Although making the butt-print wall would've been an AWESOME icebreaker for the crew.
Welcome home.
My concern is that it appears to be only RIGHT hands on the wall…. 😉
I agree – a butt print wall would have been awesome!
The only thing I can think about is the fingers all around the bar and that is creepy and it makes me want to cover up my girly bits because ……I think those fingers might like touching girly parts and that makes me worried.
Oh yeah….I am sure you have TONS of reading to do, but if you look through my blog and find The Autistic Boy and read that post….I think you might like it……….
That bar should be on a show called "Tackiest Places Ever". Tacky could describe it as well as… Scariest Bar, Bad Fetish Bar, What you might find in your Wendy's chili Bar. Shudder. It is just horrible and I really think the designer should have their credentials stripped. Actually there is no way a designer with any credentials designed that place. Bad, Bad, Bad. Funny but Bad.
seriously weird
alcohol would be necessary . . .
Bona fide creepy.
That is the WORST bar EVER! Good to have you back.
Welcome back, Aunt Becky, dear!
I'm delighted to know you like Florida (which is where I live) and that you would want to be adopted by us except for our tea, which is more or less like saying you want to be adopted by Parisians except for their wine (um, no thank you, I don't care for your interesting [read appalling] local drink). But these small things are no obstacle and we have initiated adoption procedures. I'll have your room ready in no time!
My only regret? That I was not with you in the nightmarish piano bar, and that it was another Angie with whom you cooked up your genius idea. Oh, well, I'll just go paint over those handprints in your new room….
I'm so glad you had a good time. The only time I ever went on a cruise I was pretty much horrified the entire time and as far as I know, there wasn't even a hand-bar. Whoa! Hand Bar!
I just kept wandering around thinking, "These are not my people. These are not my people," and being afraid that they would recognize that and refuse to feed me or something.
It was bad. Even though there was no Hand Bar.
Whoa. Dude. That is very freaky decor. I do NOT want to know what they were smoking when they a) came up with the idea, b) found someone who would approve it, c) found someone to build it.
Can't sleep… fingers'll probe me.
Can't sleep… fingers'll probe me.
oh becky, you are knotty by nature. *wink*
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Side note: they trick u with that fun in the sun propaganda then, hand bar :::record srtach::: wtf are you still having nightmares.
That is the scariest place I've ever seen.
This must be why I'd rather have a beach vacation then take a cruise. Glad none of those fingers got ya.
I would have stolen the middle finger and totally rode it like a unicorn all over the ship.
Jesus girls, CLEARLY you need me around to show you how to do things right.
Tack O Rama! That's a place that you visit with Hunter S Thompson while high on mushrooms.
Sounds like you had an interesting time…glad you escaped bad lounge singer with creepy hand fetish dude, and made it home safely…welcome home!
I'm picturing little finger-shaped swizzle sticks in drinks. Just disturbing.
Talk about inducing a severe case of Handophobia! Those pictures are freaky just as small 6″ pics on my screen. I can't imagine what they looked like IRL…and I don't want to, either! *shudders*
That's the creepiest, cheesiest bar I've seen in awhile.
Feels like the set of a Movie that Johnny Depp would star in, dressed as a creepy bar tender/children's television show host. The kind that makes you feel weird about ever having thought of him during special alone time…. I think.. I mean I would imagine.. that it might make somebody feel that way… hypothetically.
That is creepy, so I am going to with "victims"
dear gods the hand bar i'll never sleep again o.0
at least they weren't eyeballs!
That's so old school, that it's practically in style again.
I don't think I will ever be the same again! And…it makes me re-think EVER taking a cruise. EVER. Ever, ever, ever!
That bar is the most horrifying place I've ever seen. I expect it to show up on an episode of CSI any day now.


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Definition of transketolase in English:
noun[mass noun] Biochemistry
An enzyme which catalyses the transfer of an alcohol group between sugar molecules.
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