Is there anything we can do about this?
July 14th, 2007At some point the verb “to say” took a wrong exit somewhere and became “to be like,” as in “He’s like, ‘That car is totally hot!’ and I’m like, ‘Dude, you totally can’t afford it!’”I don’t care about “dude” and “totally” is fine with me. I like slang. But where did “to say” go?
For that matter, what does “I’m like” mean? It does mean “I said,” but this leads to some interesting places. You can also say, “I was like” to mean “I said,” and how is that different from “I’m like”?
And then we have:
“So he’s driving and he goes on 202 South, which was totally wrong, and I was like, I’m not saying anything ’cause he’s like so sure he knows where the place is, and we get really lost. I should have been like, Dude, it’s 202 North!, but he would have been like, Yo, I know where it is, all right?”
I’m just sayin’.
