"What's this software? Like, 9 years old?"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:27 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "This software is, what, 9 years old?"

It's obvious. Once that it has been pointed out.;-)

I prefer

'This software is, what? Like, 9 years old?"

But that's merely difference in taste, not a difference in substance.

My congratulations on your perspicacity!
--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org