Being like...
Hey there,read this context carefully...
A:I was in the room and all of a sudden he showed up and I WAS LIKE,"hey dude what gives?Wacha doing here?" but obviously I said nothing and just minded my business I mean who wants trouble with that piece of ****.
What's with this I WAS LIKE...I mean I can guess it means:"I thought to my self..." but is it really so?What I'm sure of is that it's common in USA,a lot that is.
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Usually "I was like" means "I said", but here it seems to have shaded into "I thought". It can be used for both. I would have said it was most popular as a slang expression back in the 1960s, but online there are a lot of more recent examples as well.
- Usually "I was like" means "I said", but here it seems to have shaded into "I thought".
- It can be used for both.
- I would have said it was most popular as a slang expression back in the 1960s, but online there are a lot of more recent examples as well.
- It's much more common among young people.
- CJ
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Usually "I was like" means "I said", but here it seems to have shaded into "I thought". It can be used for both.
I would have said it was most popular as a slang expression back in the 1960s, but online there are a lot of more recent examples as well. It's much more common among young people.
CJ
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