'like' and 'as'
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'like' and 'as'
Can somebody tell me if the differentiation of the use of 'like' and 'as' in comparatives is just old-fashioned and out of date in American English?
From the websiteof the late (and I think great) Dr. Grammar; Professor James HiDuke.Like or Such as?
"Writers whom we respect disagree on whether there is any significant difference between like and such as. Wilson Follett and Theodore Bernstein say no. James J. Kilpatrick says yes. We come down gingerly on the side of Kilpatrick. His argument seems valid: 'When we are talking of large, indefinite fields of similarity, like properly may be used. . . . When we are talking about specifically named persons [places or things] . . . included in a small field, we ought to use such as.' In 'Books like this one can help you write better,' like means similar to. In 'Cities such as Atlanta and Birmingham are important to the economy of the Southeast,' the intent is to specify those cities as examples, not merely to put them into a broad category of cities that are important to the economy of the Southeast" (Lederer and Dowis, Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay 79).
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Like such as this?
I have a dim memory of doing on-the-air radio fundraising in the wee hours of the morning; our phones were absolutely dead until in desperation an English teacher called and proclaimed she would make a pledge "if that guy stops saying 'like I said' and uses 'as I said'. It worked. So there may be some financial recompense to be found in, like, such as talking good.
I have a dim memory of doing on-the-air radio fundraising in the wee hours of the morning; our phones were absolutely dead until in desperation an English teacher called and proclaimed she would make a pledge "if that guy stops saying 'like I said' and uses 'as I said'. It worked. So there may be some financial recompense to be found in, like, such as talking good.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
Gosh! What a lame answer the young lady gave to a question that wasn't asked. Someone should do a study to discover what percent of Americans cannot accurately repeat a question they have just been asked!
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Methinks the young lady hath been served a surfeit of excoriation twixt the eternal damnation of YouTube upon the Net of Aether and those alleged to be the Journalers of res novae.
Stargzer is half-watching Olivier's Hamlet on TCM, and half-listening to his wife's caterwaulling in re her job and recent evaluation whilst travelling on the aetherial surfboard. "Alas, poor Stargzer, ... a fellow of infinite jest ..."
Stargzer is half-watching Olivier's Hamlet on TCM, and half-listening to his wife's caterwaulling in re her job and recent evaluation whilst travelling on the aetherial surfboard. "Alas, poor Stargzer, ... a fellow of infinite jest ..."
Regards//Larry
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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