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Modern manglings of the English language
Posted By: codeman38, on host 168.17.232.3
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2000, at 08:48:16

Oh boy.

I didn't realize how much I couldn't stand a certain expression until I heard it used about fifteen times in a row today.

And that expression is, "to be like", meaning, literally, "to say". Yes, I *know* the phrase makes absolutely no sense whatsoever-- that's exactly my point. The use of this phrase seems to be most widespread throughout my own generation (and why am I not surprised?)...

For those of you who still don't know what I'm talking about, here's a few examples I wrote in context [imitating the typing style favored by many of those who use it ;-)]:

"...and im like what is this rink works thing???? and hes like, its some web site that, like sumthin i cant rember, and like im like, i hope i didnt make it onto things peeps said!!!!~"

I just find that *annoying*... even *with* correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

Any other "creative" uses of the English language that drive any of you people up a wall? I know there are; let's hear some of them...

-- codeman"and you're like, i totally agree"38

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