Talk:Like

message: Wiktionary candidate? --Diberri 06:12, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)
--Like, what's that supposed to mean? --75.16.231.156 (talk) 03:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: , it's an article on a word, and nothing else. --  DasRakel  ✍  14:41, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wictionary?

message: The word "fuck" is also used in a lot of ways. I do not think there should be an own page. But you could state it in the beginning sentence of this article. I know this more meant as fun, but it is true. http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/fwordflash.html
:The word fuck does have its own page: Fuck.  And actually, as someone who has written a bit on this article, it wasn't meant so much as fun.  There are seriously interesting linguistic phenomena going on with this word right now.  There are actually people who are quite serious who spend a good deal of time researching this word and the ways its usage are changing (for that matter, there are people who spend a lot of time researching how fuck is used).  In fact, your statement about the page not being serious or worthwhile just points to the truthfulness of some arguments in sociolinguistics about what sorts of language use get privileged and what ones don't.  There's a lot of interesting and serious and impacting stuff having to do with language that we just don't often consider, and this (I think) is one of them.  -Seth Mahoney 05:38, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ain't it the truth! Wahkeenah 11:49, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fuck?

message: can "fuck" be a quotative? skizznologic3.1 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never heard 'fuck' used as a quotative.  -Seth Mahoney 22:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: yeah. hehe. the opening of this article reads weird. I don't think it's a hedge either. skizznologic3.1 22:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Fuck' or 'like'?  -Seth Mahoney 22:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Can someone give men example of it being a noun?  "What was that?  It was a like."  or "I might go buy a like" or possibly "Hey I'm bored, what to go and ride on my like for a while?".  Seriously - a noun?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.255.146 (talk) 00:36, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  can anyone tell me... 

message: I have a quick question, when "like" is used in a song title, as a comparison, should it be capitalized?
Thankyoubaby 02:08, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends on the context, but generally, when used in a comparison (as in Hidden in Plain View's "Eyes like a Target"), it should not be capitalized. --HarryCane 14:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! --Thankyoubaby 21:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalize or not? 

message: The preposition section is all wrong. The first sentence talks about similes and has two examples, one of which isn't a simile. That doesn't make sense. Then, the example itself "He eats like a pig." is a conjunction example, if I'm not mistaken. In cases where I'm confused as to part of speech, I try to diagram it, and I'm pretty sure the last part "like a pig" is the subordinate clause "like a pig (does)" where the "does" is implicit rather than explicit. Anyway, the sum of "like as a preposition" is not similes, obviously, and everything in this section is basically aimed like that. I stared at it for 10 minutes but couldn't figure out a good definition or example, which is why it still isn't fixed. Someone please re-think this section to make it correct. Garnet avi (talk) 00:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preposition section 

message: Why are all the...non-traditional 'likes' surrounded by commas? Rarely would someone put a big pause on either side of the word when saying, "like what's up with that?" or "so the job's like nine-to-five, but the pay's pretty good", etc, etc. Novium (talk) 23:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commas 

message: I do not know which areas in North of England do this, but I have heard phrases along lines of "The policeman got shot, and was dead like." - meaning he was dead. Common in stereotypical Northern accents done by actors, but I have occassionally heard this from real people too. Format (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: North of England

message: Like can be used as an adverb meaning "nearly" or to indicate that the phrase in which it appears is to be taken metaphorically or as a hyperbole. What evidence is there for "like" meaning "nearly" in the cited sentences? To me it feels more like a focus marker or intensifier (a function that is not mentioned in the article). The hyperbolic intention would be just as clear without it. It could also be that there has been a semantic shift and that "like" as a hedge has become rarer.--88.73.19.182 (talk) 17:27, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  nearly? 

message: I have lived in the (US) West my entire life, and everybody I know uses this as a quotative. I recently just got a job at a conservative government agency, and I was surprised to find out that it is NOT just those of us who were young in the 1990s who use this. The only people who do not frequently use "like" are those who are close to retirement (60's and 70's). 
Even the director of the division uses "like" as a quotative, and he's 55, ultra conservative and highly educated. 
A side note, from my observations, Hispanics in the West use "all" the same way we use like.
He was all, "I'm going to come next week." is a perfectly acceptable usage.
128.123.207.77 (talk) 15:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the West, the quotative use is not just for youth 

message: I submit that "like" is a verbal crutch which is more than acceptable to young Americans because it is a vogue word among the young who are insecure and prone to rely on imitation, and repetition for acceptance and approval. It facilitates conversation among the young by 'watering it down' (as a hedge, filler, and do-all ready recourse) their speech allowing fluency with less thought, and all too often less content or substance. So the usefulness is not in conveying specific i.e. substantive verbal  information, but rather in conveying a sympathetic mind set, a oneness of attitude, or aptitude to reinforce, or supply, one another's sense of belonging, fitness, and togetherness.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.21.221.117 (talk) 04:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verbal crutch 

message: Use of Likeness as from like?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.209.29.61 (talk) 09:08, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Likeness? 

message: Like can be lots of Word classes but which one is the main one 81.97.89.253 (talk) 17:03, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Read the article, please. You may be able to infer the frequency with which the word is used in various use classes from the order in which they are presented in the article (though I wouldn't count on it).  Please see also WP:NOTFORUM. General Ization Talk   17:18, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Word class is like