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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Thank you all so very much for being part of my mid-like crisis, and the rejuvenation that’s carrying me along. THIS IS OUR TIME TO SHINE! ...
I’m 3 months and 1 day older than you! welcome to the official mid 30s, where we can begin contemplating mid like crisis impulse buys. ...
... but i remember thinking of how old i’d be (not that i’ve ever really been worried about age…had mid-like crisis after i ended my teens ). ...
Enjoy your youth! My 30’s were the best years of my life. I was just thinking about this recently while going through my mid like crisis. Happy Birthday! ...
so i say, mom your having your mid like crisis. next thing you know you’ll wanna go tanning and shes silent. i was like you didnt!! and shes like i almost …
‘Mid-like crisis’ yields about 50 ughits and I’d assume they were all mis-typings if it weren’t for the last of the above examples. Now I’m not so sure, and since like can play such a variety of roles in speech I thought I’d best turn it over to my better-informed colleagues here on the forum…
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When you say, “I’d assume they were all mis-typings if it weren’t for the last of the above examples,” do you have in mind that a mid like crisis is thought of as a time when women of a certain age (“mom” in the example in question) begin acting like women of a rather different age – women who frequently say “like”?
The hyphenated forms in the first and third examples sort of remind me of child-like. This, in turn, makes me wonder if those users understand mid-like crisis as a crisis at “something like the middle” of adulthood. That would be rather eggcornish.
[EDIT 5/23/2009 Another possibility has occurred to me. Perhaps it is the mid-like crisis itself that makes one seem like a middle aged person?]
Last edited by nilep (2009-05-23 20:25:33)
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I’m no longer sure of what I meant when citing that last example, for the last two likes are clearly quotative and the first may have simply occurred in anticipation. I think I may have thought that like was being used as a hedge – something crisis-like happening in the middle of something else – but I seem to have lost any conviction I may have had, so your suggestions are appreciated.
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