L = Like

“Like” can take different twists and turns when we say it.  For instance, I like to go to the ocean and listen to and watch the waves.  Or you can be a “valley girl,” and like you know, like to go to the, like you know, the ocean.  There is also the word like when you refer to something being like something else.  No wonder the English language is one of the most difficult to learn for non-English native speakers!  So let’s have some fun…

Jane had always hated brussel sprouts, but at one point, she forced herself to eat them to impress a certain person who liked them.  She stated, “I like brussel sprouts now because my tastes have matured.”  (gag!  choke…)  When those who know Jane, really like KNOW her, question her further, she admits it is a lie and she does NOT like brussel sprouts.  So one of the people that know her, like really know her, says, “I don’t understand why you don’t like brussel sprouts!  Really Jane! Like they taste so good!  Like I would have them every day of the week, you know?”  Jane whirls on the speaker and says through clenched teeth, “They taste like baby cabbages and I hate baby cabbages, grown cabbages, like all cabbage!”  The speaker backs away from Jane’s verbal attack, like way, way back.

Get it?  Like do you see how like can be used like for anything you like want to say?  It’s as blah a word as “nice,” and you don’t want me to get started on that, because I could like go on forever about “nice” and “like” and drive you, the reader up the walls and like—well, you know, like me, too!  And you would not like that, nor would I!

To end on a positive note, though, I do like:

puppy breath

sunrises

concertos

peace songs

reading

nature like the ocean and the forests

And why?  Because these things are like a natural high to me that wash over me, into me and make me feel like life is good when I am surrounded with—well, like, you know…