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Cristi Laquer at Invented Usage has recently posted "on like usage". She cites a number of blog posts on the various innovative uses of like (the hedge, the quotative and so on), including a Language Log post, and asks "If anyone knows of anything else out there, please let us know!"
The classic (non-blog) reference is Muffy Siegel's paper "Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics" (J. of Semantics 19(1), Feb. 2002). In thinking about other references on our site, I came to three conclusions at almost the same time. There have been quite a few Language Log posts that are relevant to the use of like; it's hard to find them; and none of them summarizes the epic panorama of that protean word's patterns of usage.
To start with, here's a reasonably complete list, in chronological order, of Language Log posts relevant to like:
It's like, so unfair (Geoff Pullum)
Like is, like, not really like if you will (Mark Liberman)
Exclusive: God uses "like" as a hedge (Geoff Pullum)
Divine ambiguity (Mark Liberman)
Grammar critics are, like, annoyed really weird (Mark Liberman)
This construction seems that I would never use it (Mark Liberman)
Look like a reference problem (Eric Bakovic)
Seems like, go, all (Mark Liberman)
I'm like, all into this stuff (Arnold Zwicky)
I'm starting to get like "this is really interesting" (Mark Liberman)
This is, like, such total crap? (Mark Liberman)
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Reading Experience May Change the Brains of Dyslexic Students - NYTimes.com - 1 views
Keep Telling Yourself, 'This Workout Feels Good' - NYTimes.com - 2 views
Wild Talk - Radiolab - 1 views
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Two stories: First, about the Diana monkey (alarm calls), with some new insight. Second, about prairie dog chirps, which have "a grammar of color, shapes, and sizes."
STEVEN STROGATZ - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com - 6 views
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I love the way this guy writes about math. I really understand math as a language because of him. I wish I'd had him as a teacher.
Weekend Competition: Whelmed by Outunendo - Schott's Vocab Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Language Log: May 2005 Archives - 0 views
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Has a list of entries on the word "like"
Communicate Like MLK and Change the World | Duarte Blog - 3 views
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"MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is not only literarily brilliant, its structure follows the presentation form perfectly, by traversing back and forth between what is and what could be, and ending by describing what the new bliss of equality looks like. In addition, MLK carefully chooses phrases and metaphors that resonate deeply with his audience." I'd recommend watching the video: http://vimeo.com/18792376
Language Log - 0 views
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A blog about language
Wordwatchers - 1 views
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Blog devoted to analyzing language of public figures
separated by a common language - 0 views
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Interesting blog: Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK
Parents' Ums And Uhs Can Help Toddlers Learn Language : Shots - Health Blog : NPR - 4 views
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"They are making the inference - not consciously - that when someone has difficulty making a word they are most likely referring to an object that is rare," says Aslin.
Music and Memory | BrainFacts.org Blog - 3 views
Who Have Better Memories: Men or Women? | Britannica Blog - 0 views
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Information about even the tiniest details of our daily lives zooms along neurons in our brains and is processed and saved in some predetermined location. How and what information is stored in the memory is in part dependent on whether an individual is a man or a woman.
Let Us Review North Korea's Glorious New Slogans! - 2 views
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North Korea has published 310 new slogans to encourage patriotism - so what do they say, what do they mean and what do they tell us about the leadership in Pyongyang? Propaganda in the form of slogans, posters, stamps and books has played an important role in the country since the state was founded in 1948, so the appearance of a new batch of exhortations is not surprising. My personal favorite: "Play sports games in an offensive way!" See http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31446387 for a full list of the slogans.
Yes, We Can Communicate with Animals - Scientific American Blog Network - 3 views
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This article discusses human communication with other animals. It states that animals won't be able to remember words like "bacteria" or "economy" because they don't have the brain capacity to understand those words. However, if you tell a dog to "sit", the dog is able to differentiate the sound of that particular word from other verbal signals, and can carry out the action. This is how learning words works. The article also discusses IQ and explains that human brains have been genetically modified for communication, and the size of our brains is also much bigger than expected in animals of the same size.
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The article also underscores a quality that differentiates human language from other animal communication: grammatical orderliness. Human languages have word categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and so on. We can modify word order and word endings to create different tenses so that we can describe events from the past or imaginary ones from the future. This grammatical complexity emerges quite early in child development, beginning in the second year of life and exploding with full force in the third year of life. No nonhuman animal to date has demonstrated the ability to construct sentences with the level of grammatical complexity typical of a three-year-old human child.
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