tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post4548501442003152531..comments2024-03-27T14:20:05.905-04:00Comments on Montclair SocioBlog: Sometimes I Feel Like . . . a Muddledness ChildJay Livingstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-692460734247241172016-05-12T13:22:32.101-04:002016-05-12T13:22:32.101-04:00Worthen's article is utter nonsense, nothing m...Worthen's article is utter nonsense, nothing more than inane linguistic peeving masquerading, as it always does, as concern with the content of what people are saying when it's really about nothing more than the form. As <a href="https://debuk.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/a-matter-of-opinion/" rel="nofollow">Deborah Cameron notes in her blog post about this article</a>:<br /><br />"Worthen’s argument that we’ve become too touchy-feely rests largely on an observation about the contemporary use of words—that ‘feel like’ is now preferred to ‘think’—and on closer inspection this is linguistically naive. The phrase ‘I think’, which she takes to be both completely different from and self-evidently preferable to ‘I feel like’, actually does the same job."<br /><br />Cameron aptly sums up this whole way of thinking about languages as "overblown nonsense".AJDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15212125374163334242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-46559926487121688772016-05-01T21:45:52.554-04:002016-05-01T21:45:52.554-04:00In the Language Log post that Worthen links to (an...In the <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=6328" rel="nofollow">Language Log post </a>that Worthen links to (and that I should have looked at before writing my post), Mark Liberman or one of the commenters says something similar about "I feel that" opening lines for conversation.Jay Livingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06652075579940313964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35248477.post-44271535763498631762016-05-01T18:50:20.101-04:002016-05-01T18:50:20.101-04:00The way I see it, it's always an advantage in ...The way I see it, it's always an advantage in internet discourse to couch your opinions in phrases that clearly state that they're opinions, such as "I feel like...", "It seems to me..." "I believe that..." or "The way I see it...". Nobody writes books anymore; we are all just commenting on each others' blog posts, so the decision to write as if anchored by one's first-person perspective is a wise one as it gives responders the chance to simply disagree with the original author's feelings.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08520811734907587902noreply@blogger.com