[Lexicog] like/you know

David Tuggy david_tuggy at SIL.ORG
Tue Sep 6 19:54:00 UTC 2005


The linguistic expression of a truly transcendent experience, what? 
Ineffable, you might say, though of course there are those coarse souls 
around who are able to eff anything at all.

(Actually, there are interesting parallels in apocalyptic literature: 
Ezekiel [1.27-8] describes the vision of G-d [as he would probably have 
spelled it] as "Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on 
the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. 
Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." Quite 
a ways from "This is what G-d looks like". The previous few paragraphs 
are very heavy with "like" words, though most of them form part of 
phrases somewhat more contentful than the flower-child's.)

--David T

Rudolph C Troike wrote:

>
> The first time I heard these usages was in a radio interview with a girl
> in San Francisco during the Haight-Ashbury "flower child" florescence of
> the 1960s. I don't remember the question the interviewer asked her, but
> her response was along the lines of: "It's like, you know, well, like,
> you know, like, it's like, you know...". The interviewer finally gave up
> and thanked her and concluded the interview.
>
>       Rudy Troike
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