Quotative Like

Dave Wilton, Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Sunday’s International Herald Tribune has a piece on the quotative like, the use of the word like to introduce a quote, as in:

She was, like, “I wouldn’t be caught dead in that outfit.”

Like it or not, it appears as if this use of like is here to stay.

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