The strong strictures against the use of like as a conjunction have resulted in the occasional hypercorrect use of as as a preposition where like is idiomatic: She looks as a sympathetic person. See also as. Words nearby like Ligurian Sea , ligustrum , Li Hung-chang , likable , Likasi , like , like a bat out of hell , like a bump on a log , like a cat on hot bricks , like a champ , like a chicken with its head cut off.
I like my coffee with milk and sugar. Digital Technology. Like us on Facebook to get a free sample. Usually likes. The Most Insincere Compliments And What To Say Instead Time to move away from "great job" and "very nice" and elevate your compliments with these synonyms for some of the most overused words of praise out there. Words related to like alike , comparable , related , admire , appreciate , go for , love , feel like , please , prefer , want , as , agnate , allied , approximating , close , cognate , conforming , congeneric , consonant.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B. If you knew Susie like I know Susie. Wesley, Burns, As a budding grammarian, you should know of this battle. In the words of New Fowler : It would appear that in many kinds of written and spoken English like as a conjunction is struggling towards acceptable standard or neutral ground.
It is not there yet. But the distributional patterns suggest that the long-standing resistance to this omnipresent little word is beginning to crumble. New Fowler , p. Please continue reading …. Email Print. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Forgot your password? This tool allows you to find the grammatical word type of almost any word. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. He told this story with zest, vividness, and joy. What, after all, would occasion hesitation in spelling out that a family was holding an event in a room?
So is it that young people are strangely overusing the like from the dictionary, or might it be that like has birthed a child with a different function altogether?
When one alternative involves saddling entire generations of people, of an awesome array of circumstances across a vast nation, with a mysteriously potent inferiority complex, the other possibility beckons as worthy of engagement. In that light, what has happened to like is that it has morphed into a modal marker—actually, one that functions as a protean indicator of the human mind at work in conversation.
There are actually two modal marker like s—that is, to be fluent in modern American English is to have subconsciously internalized not one but two instances of grammar involving like. That sentence, upon examination, is more than just what the words mean in isolation plus a bizarre squirt of slouchy little like s. Like grandparents and like grandkids means, when we break down what this teenager was actually trying to communicate, that given the circumstances, you might think it strange that an entire family popped up in this space we expected to be empty for our use, but in fact, it really was a whole family.
And in that, note that there is also at the same time an acknowledgment of counterexpectation. It may seem that I am freighting the little word with a bit much, but consider: It was, like, her! That sentence has a very precise meaning, despite the fact that because of its sociological associations with the young, to many it carries a whiff of Bubble Yum, peanut butter, or marijuana.
The like acknowledges—imagine even a little curtsey—the discomfort. It softens the blow—that is, eases—by swathing the statement in the garb of hypotheticality that the basic meaning of like lends. Note that while this new like cushions a blow, the blow does get delivered.
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