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overhear such a conversation is tempted to smack them in the face | overhear such a conversation is tempted to smack them in the face | ||
- hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC) | - hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.230.221|108.162.230.221]] 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
+ | :That has like nothing to do with it. The German analogue is "so" ("Ich so: Kein Scheiss! Dann sie so: Sicher, Mann!"). --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.254.138|108.162.254.138]] 11:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC) | I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.195|199.27.128.195]] 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC) | ||
: Do you mean like: "In this comic, Megan like mentions an article on like the use of the word "like" as, like, a quotative, like. Cueball, like, makes a joke on this by, like,managing to use the word "like" like three times in like a seven word sentence, like. The "quotative like" is like regularly given as like an example of like the decline of the English language, like. It is used to like introduce a quotation or impersonation, although what follows may not be a like "verbatim" like quote, but rather conveys the like general meaning of the original phrase, like." [[User:Plm-qaz snr|Plm-qaz snr]] ([[User talk:Plm-qaz snr|talk]]) 02:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC) | : Do you mean like: "In this comic, Megan like mentions an article on like the use of the word "like" as, like, a quotative, like. Cueball, like, makes a joke on this by, like,managing to use the word "like" like three times in like a seven word sentence, like. The "quotative like" is like regularly given as like an example of like the decline of the English language, like. It is used to like introduce a quotation or impersonation, although what follows may not be a like "verbatim" like quote, but rather conveys the like general meaning of the original phrase, like." [[User:Plm-qaz snr|Plm-qaz snr]] ([[User talk:Plm-qaz snr|talk]]) 02:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC) |
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That second panel is, like, depressing. 108.162.249.185 05:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
I found the article. Piderman (talk) 05:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Cool, added it. Thanks. PinkAmpersand (talk)
God also introduced a new concept "light" and was quicker implementing it throughout the world. And light sounds similar to (like) like. Sebastian --108.162.231.68 08:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Are there any other examples of actual living people who are not celebrities being name-checked in xkcd? Andries (talk) 13:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Given that the article noted that the next generation would be, quote, "in control," I think Cueball's interpretation is...well, slightly less absurd than it would be otherwise. 108.162.216.109 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
«Cueball: Like, when you're like, "She was like"?» What does that mean? --RenniePet (talk) 15:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Closest translation: "For example, when you say 'she said...'" Andyd273 (talk) 15:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Non-English analogon
It might interest you that in Germany exactly the same phenomenon exists, only in different flavor: the lower caste using "Digger" (like, "Fatso") as each third word, possibly in lieu of a comma. (Appears not yet in written material.) Anyone forced to overhear such a conversation is tempted to smack them in the face - hey, it works on a stuck record needle too :-) 108.162.230.221 13:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- That has like nothing to do with it. The German analogue is "so" ("Ich so: Kein Scheiss! Dann sie so: Sicher, Mann!"). --108.162.254.138 11:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
I vote that the explain be rewritten to incorporate as many uses of this phenomenon as possible. 199.27.128.195 22:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
- Do you mean like: "In this comic, Megan like mentions an article on like the use of the word "like" as, like, a quotative, like. Cueball, like, makes a joke on this by, like,managing to use the word "like" like three times in like a seven word sentence, like. The "quotative like" is like regularly given as like an example of like the decline of the English language, like. It is used to like introduce a quotation or impersonation, although what follows may not be a like "verbatim" like quote, but rather conveys the like general meaning of the original phrase, like." Plm-qaz snr (talk) 02:52, 7 February 2015 (UTC)