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From: "Craig" <ragnarok@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:15:27 -0400
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>> As a member of the generation that uses this like:
>> It is not actually freestanding - a grammar has evolved of when it is and
is
>> not used.

>In particular, it is used as a marker of indirect and sometimes even
>direct discourse:  standard "I said that P" comes out "I'm, like, P."

I actually find that usage less commonly than as a marker of secondhand
knowledge, but it is used also.


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