[003] How much we 'like' language

Feb 05, 2010 14:20

Who is it that fooled me into believing the word 'like' had only a few precise meanings?  Webster's Dictionary seems to do no justice to the English language.  Today, unfortunately, I came across a group of students who managed to use the word 'like' more times in a sentence than the word 'I ( Read more... )

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tru_sojourner February 6 2010, 04:52:16 UTC
That's quite a few people, I'm afraid.

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tru_sojourner February 6 2010, 05:09:04 UTC
College students, my dear.

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tru_sojourner February 6 2010, 05:35:58 UTC
It's a class called psychological linguistics. Language of the mind many say.

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