To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I am informed by my 18 year old daughter (who just graduated high school) that use of the form "like" indicates a paraphrase rather than an exact quote, and thus actually has a justification!
(I don't know if I buy this explanation or not - and certainly the writer of this piece doesn't know this because the statement is garnished with quotation marks.)
16 posted on
05/30/2006 7:28:18 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
See my #18 re: I was like.
21 posted on
05/30/2006 7:30:52 AM PDT by
Huck
(Hey look, I'm still here.)
To: AnAmericanMother
My English teachers would have had fits over the use of the word "like" in the way I increasingly see it used. Maybe some of the "new" English is really a backlash at the strict English teachers of the past.
102 posted on
05/30/2006 12:25:06 PM PDT by
Tammy8
(Build a Real Border Fence, and secure the border!!!)
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