A Funny Times cartoon (passed on by Rebecca Wheeler on Facebook): In the world of innovative quotatives (which includes go, (be) like, (be) all, and be), (be) like has definitely been on the upswing. See the items in Isa Buchstaller’s 2004 bibliography on quotatives: social and linguistic factors and grammaticalization and the Stanford papers on quotative (be) all: … Continue reading Quotatives