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Subject:RE: What's to like about like From:Roger Bell <RBell -at- OptioSoftware -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:59:03 -0400
Beware of a linguist with the name, Muffy.
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From: Dana Worley [mailto:dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com]
Subject: What's to like about like
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."
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