Wordie: Like: Comments

Comment by VanishedOne, 24 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:40:10 +0000

The state of being AWAR?

Acutally, the OED lists awar as Old English and one of many variants of owhere, 'anywhere'.

An acadamy is perhaps an academy for dames.

Comment by chained_bear, 24 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:45:20 +0000

Just looked at it again. Not only is "awareness" missing the first E, but "Academy" is misspelled. Spec-TAC-ular.

*fur dripping*

Comment by dontcry, 24 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:20:07 +0000

Good catch, pleth. I was focused on that..."thing" in the lower left corner. Is that, like, the worst logo ever??

Comment by chained_bear, 24 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:51:45 +0000

*roars and runs off to bathe in a river and get that disgusting shit offa me*

Comment by reesetee, 24 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:12:47 +0000

*Grabs an overripe banana and mashes it into chained_bear's fur*

*topped with a marshmallow*

Comment by chained_bear, 25 days ago

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:42:35 +0000

*takes reesetee's indiscriminate, icing-smeared cupcake and rubs it in reesetee's EAR*

*topped with a marshmallow!*

Comment by Prolagus, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:00:09 +0000

Ha! I didn't notice that!

Comment by plethora, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:57:13 +0000

Is it amusing to anyone else that at the bottom of that poster the "e" has been left out of "awareness"?

Comment by bilby, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:49:36 +0000

You'd think these two were married, the way they carry on.

Comment by dontcry, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:03:33 +0000

Corners!

Comment by reesetee, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:31:54 +0000

A marshmallow? You threw a marshmallow at me? Of all the....

*indiscriminately flings cupcake at chained_bear's snout*

Comment by chained_bear, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:50:52 +0000

OWW! What'dja do that for?! *whips cupcake at reesetee's head*

*followed closely by a marshmallow*

Comment by reesetee, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:01:32 +0000

Yes! Yes, remember? We...uh...had that meeting? About not liking "like"? *kicks c_b under the table*

Comment by chained_bear, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:51:31 +0000

We are?

Comment by reesetee, 25 days ago

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:52:28 +0000

Skipvia: I confess. Chained_bear and I are campaigning to ban the word from the English language.

Comment by yarb, 26 days ago

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:59:33 +0000

There must be multiple theses on this phenomenon by now. Can anyone direct me?

n.b. skip: not me. But I'll donate.

Comment by skipvia, 26 days ago

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:05:17 +0000

Okay--which one of you Wordies is behind this movement?

Anyone seen chained_bear lately?

Comment by Jrome, 2 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:51:03 +0000

to fall in like (for love):

"Before I discovered you could set up a "disk browser" in TextWrangler, I fell in like with TextMate. I seem to be in good company because I keep recognizing TextMate in screencasts." from http://blog.contenthere.net/2008/06/i-use-this.html

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:49:15 +0000

Thanks, uselessness. Just so. :-)

Comment by uselessness, 10 months ago

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:06 +0000

Oh, there's an obscure usage you missed: "I like ice cream."
It indicates favor. Mostly obsolete.

Scooby Doo

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:04:01 +0000

Shaggy: "Like, let's get outta here, Scoob!"

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:01:02 +0000

Valley Speak

As an adverb: I, like, died!
As a quotative: She was, like, no way!
Like can also be used to communicate a pantomime, or to paraphrase an explicitly unspoken idea or sentiment: I was like (speaker rolls eyes).
As a hedge: I have, like, no money.
As a discourse particle or interjection: I, like, don't know what to do.
It is also becoming more often used at the end of a sentence, as an alternative to you know: I didn't say, like, anything.

Catherine Tate - Valley Girl

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:53:18 +0000

as in "She was like all random."

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:27:40 +0000