What's to like about like

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

I thought some of you might enjoy the following article I came across while eating 
lunch and perusing the news sites (this is from CNN):

"A Temple University linguist says there's a lot to like about "like," the crutch word of 
teenagers and the bane of language purists. Muffy E.A. Siegel, who has published a 
scholarly study of the word, says "like" is not mindless filler but can actually impart 
meaning."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/09/05/offbeat.us.liking.like.ap/index.html

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While the researcher contends that the word is not "mindless filler" because it can 
change the meaning of a sentence, it's not, like, I'd use it in any serious writing, you 
know like?

Dana W. 


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