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The Guide of Likes
Like — To think something is good.
Like — To indicate online that you think something is good.
"Like" — To say you like something when you don't, as in, "I like that guy. Not like I 'like' that guy Ann is dating."
Like — A synonym for "in the way that" (see above).
Like — A synonym for "um."
Like — Preceded by "be," a synonym for "say."
Like — Preceded by "was," a synonym for "said."
Like — A synonym for "similar to."
Like-like — To have a crush.
Liiike-like/LIKE-like – To have a huge crush.
LIIIKE-LIKE-LIIIiiiIIIeeeeK – To be obsessed with, consumed.
Luh-huh-huh-hi-eeek-i-eee-ike – To want to marry.
"Luh-huh-huh-hi-eeek-i-eee-ike" — To want to divorce.
LIIIIIIIIIIKE [shrieked] — To need help.
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@_ribstbbq_ That is a LIE
How DARE you say such things about me
Like: a word I don't want to hear twentysomething year old girls use more than once per sentence, nor construct entire sentences made solely of this word.
@parallel-lines Agh, I'm working on it.
@parallel-lines
Like, 'like likes like likes like, like like likes'?
@parallel-lines I'M TRYING TO STOP, OK?! JESUS CHRIST, DAD.
(Sorry, but I got in a screaming match with my father about this issue this weekend–every time I used like in the My So-Called Life way, he'd shout "DING!")
@parallel-lines guys do it too! example A: my brother.
@Tulletilsynet YES, REALLY. Not even joking. I think there was an "OMG!" maybe interjected in there, too.
The worst is when we're interviewing candidates right out of college and they start in and all I can think is, "Am I, like, supposed to take this seriously?" I want to give the the benefit of the doubt that they'd never speak to a client like that, but that's unfortunately not the case
@Clare: I like your father. I like you too.
@parallel-lines once when I was recently out of college, my coworkers and I started a kind of awareness contest to see who used "like" the most and keep a tally of it, and I think there were beers on the line. It lasted about a day or two because it was SO GD pervasive. This in spite of our attempts to be super conscious of it and trying to weed out the usage (recognizing that as intelligent people we were handicapping ourselves).
Funnily enough, working at a real job has done more to help me stop the bad habit than any previous conscious attempts on my part. Although I have a new crutch, "basically" that I NEED. TO. STOP. USING ALL THE TIME.
@Clare My grandfather used to give me a demerit every time I said "like," and when I got 20, I had to muck out the barn. It was very effective.
@parallel-lines How are you working on it? I'm 35 and still every 3rd word out of my mouth is "like." I Cannot. Stop. Saying. It.
@finguns I decided a while back that I wanted to be taken seriously at work and that 'liking' the shit out of everything was holding me back. So I quit.
@finguns I did the rubber band on the wrist thing and snapped myself every time I said it for a month. It… helped. I'm not nearly as bad.
@parallel-lines I thought you meant you quit work, and I thought, "woah, that was drastic. I wonder if it worked." And then I realized I was, like, totally misunderstanding.
@parallel-lines I think I have become relatively proficient at developing different levels of speech self-monitoring depending on whether i am in situation in which the use of "like" as a quotative/hedge is really cringe-worthy (ie professional settings), versus ones where I will just be ruthlessly mocked (family gatherings). As someone who spent hours on a sociolinguistics assignment transcribing teenage conversation and documenting all the different usages of "like," you would think I would be able to stop saying it. You would be wrong.
@parallel-lines Ten years ago, I went on a month-long trip through parts of Europe with a co-worker who had just turned 21. Literally every other word was 'like'. There was no escaping it. For most of the trip I was homesick, but I wonder if I wasn't just 'like' sick.
The word you heard nine zillion times when you watched the My So-Called Life marathon all day yesterday.
Liek – how I accidentally type "like" every time I try to type "like" five hundred times a day. I'm going to try and pass it off as Dutch.
@applestoapples "Oops, I meant to say lick"
slightly relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlSUUec2G0
Sometimes when I find myself commenting on things AS IN NOW I realize I have come to depend on the word like so much that it, like, starts creeping into the way I type. Ahhhhhhhhh. At least it is, like, grammatically correct or whatever?
I dunno. I'm sorry.
@mouthalmighty Hahaha I do the same thing. I was going to say "Don't worry! It's fine! Everyone does it!" but maybe everyone doesn't do it and we're just horrible people?
I'm sorry too.
this got tricky being read aloud to my roommate. ending in madness, in that usual edith fashion. A DELIGHT!
@Esther C. Werdiger: DELIKEFUL!
@Hot mayonnaise NICE!
In order to break my daughter of her habit of saying "Like" far too often, I started making her say "similar to". My daughter no longer Likes me.
My worst offense is using "like" in place of "said" or "says" or whatever.
And then he was like… and then I was like … and then HE was like … ughhhhh shoot me.
@redheadedandcrazy I've managed to cut out most of my extraneous likes except fro this as well. It's so hard to remember! Also I think that the use of like for said has gotten so pervasive that I feel strange when I use said now? Like I'm being pedantic about speech or something?
Anyway I probably just need to gussy up my use of Other speaking words. She exposited… He retorted… She jaculated and the like.
@boysplz My problem with it is that "said" seems like a too definitive statement when I'm describing the gist of a statement and not directly quoting someone, so "he was like" feels more accurate, yet also more stupid. There needs to be a better way to say this.
@thebestjasmine So true! I guess I'll just start saying, "and then, to paraphrase, he said …"
Seriously, what alternative is there? I don't know if "jaculate" is going to catch on, even just for myself.
@redheadedandcrazy Sounds too much like "ejaculate" if you're asking me. That could lead to some misunderstandings when recapping an interaction.
@redheadedandcrazy I'm just going to start acting out conversations with my hands talking forth to each other. "This is approximately how the conversation went, my right hand is me, my left hand is my mom…."
@Brunhilde Carry sock puppets that resemble the people you converse with most often!
@redheadedandcrazy Ten thousand votes for "And then, to paraphrase, he said…"
If I ever propose to someone, I might do it by saying 'I really Luh-huh-huh-hi-eeek-i-eee-ike you!', hopefully in addition to breathing asthamtically.
Sidenote: Column idea! Reading between the likes …
Last night my boyfriend and I ordered pizza, and the kid who answered the phone offered me "two large one-topping pizzas for like $9.99." Then when BF asked if they had a meat-lover's special, Pizza Kid said, "We don't have a special, but we have meat that we can put on a pizza."
@jen325 That is a good story.
@Megan Patterson@facebook That's, like, a good story.
@Megan Patterson@facebook Thanks! The phone was on speaker and I couldn't suppress my laughter.
@Ophelia When he said that, I was like, OMG, y'know?
@jen325 Srsly.
Liqe: To have an affinity for Qream. Can't believe no one's said it yet!
LIKE. Like. like. After seeing it so many times it looks weird. likelikelikelikelikelike
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Like: A beautifully written novel by Ali Smith
Like Lilly Like Wilson's favorite word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tshNfYWPlDg
Now if only we can get people to stop saying "literally" all the time.