I agree, and I also think that it is part of the tendency that I mentioned
a while ago towards utterances that are collages of direct quoations
rather than new syntactic structures, e.g.  "He was like 'Think
"different"'! And I was like 'Hunh?'"

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001  Johanna Rubba wrote:

> I agree with you completely, Paul. It was what I was getting at when I
> put "different" in quotes in my analysis. Hence the adjective-used-as-direct-object-and-looking-like-it's-trying-to-be-a-noun.
> 
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