Use of the word “like” when people really mean “as” or “such as”.
A book I read recently was full of this [British History For Dummies]: when I read, “People like the Romans or Ancient Greeks …” my immediate reaction was “Can’t they like both?”
Even the Beeb is doing it: “People like the Nazis”. Do they? I wonder why?!
That this is a losing battle doesn’t stop me from fighting it, any more than it stops me fighting the use of “data” as a singular.
When someone says to me, “Like I was saying …” I have to bite my tongue so as not to reply, “No, I don’t.”
Like = similar to;
Like = affection
Nothing more!!!!
New uses of “like”:
Like you like it – Shakespeare
Like time goes by – song in C-like-ablanca !!!
Like with gladness men of old – hymn
Like tears go by – pop song
Anyone got any more?
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