LIKE. POCKET SAND. K-CH CH CH CHAWWWW
You cultivate these parasocial relationships with people online who pay you for them. Like.
Like.
“Like” fucking what?!
"Like, why the fuck would anyone think a one-word sentence with only the word ‘LiKe.’ can convey any meaning whatsoever?
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
What?
RustyShackleford@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Like.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Sure.
Just pointing out that one word sentences can, and do convey meaning. Often lots of meaning.
I glommed onto that like too, but ignored it and chose not to be a dickhead. Just saying.
RustyShackleford@programming.dev 22 hours ago
jUsT sAyInG.
What? What are you just saying? Oh, where you referring to the things YOU ALREADY JUST SAID?
Suck my balls.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
That is our word, you have, like, no right to use it
RustyShackleford@programming.dev 21 hours ago
“B-B-BuT i UsEd A sOfT “K”! AlL mY dUmB fRiEnDs SaY i CaN uSe It! I hAvE a LoT oF dUmB fRiEnDs!”
apotheotic@beehaw.org 23 hours ago
I guess it would have been more correct to write “Like-.” since that would make it clear that it was an unfinished idea. I interpreted it both as being too exasperated to finish the thought, or as leading into the following paragraph.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Hey buddy, language rules are constructed after the fact to EXPLAIN a language, they aren’t set by the king of English to be followed.
People use “like” in real life just as they did here all the time, and people understand them. Therefore it’s language.
You’re the one that is wrong here both technically and morally.
You are the one who is dumb in this situation, not the people who have a slightly different dialect than you
RustyShackleford@programming.dev 16 hours ago
I’m not your “buddy”, guy.
“Like.”, as a single word sentence, especially when written or typed, conveys nothing. Inferring something about what the user of the word is trying to say with that one word dilutes any meaning in what was previously stated.
That’s my point. It’s language, yes, but used stupidly. People use “like” as one sentence in real life and sound dumb when they do it. Same as “just saying”. Neither convey any further meaning or elucidation of a previous point.
While language certainly evolves and I wouldn’t call myself the “King of English”, as you say, I am perfectly and “morally” within my rights to opine, loudly even, that the use of “like” as a one-word sentence is (once more, with feeling) stupid and meaningless.
In the words of Charles Bronson, “Take those pearls you’re clutchin’ and shove 'em up your ass.”
This is not a matter of “dialect”. It’s a matter of shitty usage of words that don’t literally, metaphorically, allegorically, or mean anything, in context.
I’ve been called worse than “dumb”. Your opinion of what I am in this situation means precisely dick-cheese to me. I don’t know if you’re trying to change my mind, but if you want to call me “dumb”, knock yourself out.
When you get diagnosed with cancer, I hope your doctor, with all the vocal fry they can muster, says, “So you’re, like, gonna die. Like. Just saying.”
I said what I said and I, again, happy to die on this hill.
Like.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 minutes ago
You don’t think getting upset over “Like.” is pearl clutching?