On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Janet Castilleja wrote:

> Dear Ategers
>
> How would you folks analyze these sentences?
>
> 1.  He went, like, "you're crazy!"
>
> 2.  He was all like "You're crazy!"
>


This construction, especially in 2, "be like," has recently been discussed
extensively on another listserv (ADS-L).  The emerging analysis terms
this construction a "quotative" use of "like".

Virtually, Terry
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