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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 AM

I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
By Cary Tennis

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  • Tuesday, July 17, 2007 09:05 PM

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    I know I said I was out, but I cannot resist this:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/magazine/15wwln-guest-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin

    The above is an excellent article on what Patricia T. O'Conner calls the "quotative like." It seems the word actually has some uses. However, I think there may be some truthiness to it. For instance when someone says, "and then I went like" do they mean they actually said it or just wanted to say it but didn't have the guts? We need some rules about the word like.

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