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[edit] Word Origin

I was watching a CBC documentary an Canadian English, and they said that the word like entered the language in the 1960's but nobody knows from where. Does anyone know where word first appeared?

[edit] Wictionary?

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)

[edit] Like soda?

Wasn't there a soda called Like in the 1960s and 1970s? Who was that made by? 7UP? In any case, it should be noted via link in the article.

[edit] Fuck?

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)
Ain't it the truth! Wahkeenah 11:49, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Seth, I tihnk the first poster ment that the flash thing he posted is ment for fun, not the article. - Navarro 07:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] can anyone tell me...

can "fuck" be a quotative? skizznologic3.1 22:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I've never heard 'fuck' used as a quotative. -Seth Mahoney 22:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
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)
'Fuck' or 'like'? -Seth Mahoney 22:14, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
The word like is one of only two words in English that can be a noun,
verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, hedge, and quotative.
For the other word, see Fuck.

This is clearly incorrect. if you go to the fuck page, you'll see that fuck can take 5 forms, not all the same 8 forms as "like". anyone wann find a way to work it back in & keep it accurate- feel free- it's your wiki too. skizznologic3.1 06:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

"Like" is NOT an adjective!!! You cannot say "she is a like person", "she is very like" or "she is liker than me". The examples given are its prepositional usage.


[edit] "Like" is a cool like word to use

In a descriptive treatment of a word, I don't think it is good linguistic practice to make subjective judgements of that word's "appropriateness." I think any references to the prescriptive usage of the word "like" should perhaps be treated in a separate subheading of this article, instead of asides in the descriptions of its parts of speech. Just because you don't like a word, doesn't mean we can't have a discussion about how it is used.

[edit] Capitalize or not?

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)

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)
Thanks! --Thankyoubaby 21:01, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect uses in adjective section

"Like" used in the first two examples (He is like her; This tastes like chocolate) are prepositions for comparisons. In the third, "alike" is actually an adverb that modifies "so". A better example is: "Argon, neon, and like gases are inert." I'm going to remove the old examples and use mine instead. Any objections?

[edit] Preposition section

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)