Re:The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’
by dionidium on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:14PM
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How many kids books -- or novels of any kind -- have only passive descriptions of what people said
I should clarify that in the first case I was talking about oral storytelling. My second complaint more generally applies to the written word.
This is entirely subjective, of course, but my choice of the word reenactment was deliberate. Often, I'm not told what happened; I'm given a tedious play-by-play of both sides of the interaction.
so I was like do you wanna see a movie
and he was like I guess
and I was like, what do you mean you guess
and he's just like, I dunno, I guess
and I'm like just tell me if you want to or not
and he's all like get off my back
and I'm all like I'm not on your back
10 minutes later what I've learned is that you had a fight about indecision; but I also got to see a horribly-acted one-man play!
That's what I'm complaining about, not, more generally, the use of quoting as a literary device.
Re:The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’
by fooza on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:30PM
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You excluded the main object of the conversation. Even in your contrived example the main point he is trying to convey is his disdain with the other person, how they felt when this altercation happened. your summary doesn't have any of that.
I should clarify that in the first case I was talking about oral storytelling. My second complaint more generally applies to the written word.
This is entirely subjective, of course, but my choice of the word reenactment was deliberate. Often, I'm not told what happened; I'm given a tedious play-by-play of both sides of the interaction.
10 minutes later what I've learned is that you had a fight about indecision; but I also got to see a horribly-acted one-man play!That's what I'm complaining about, not, more generally, the use of quoting as a literary device.