{"id":878,"date":"2009-03-28T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T08:59:18","slug":"this-is-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"This is me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the seminars I went to this week was on innovation in London English. One interesting point noticed by the researchers was the range of quotatives being used. Quotatives are words and expressions used to introduce reported speech, including \u201cI said\u201d and \u201cshe went\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The most common quotative among young Londoners is \u201cbe like\u201d, as in \u201cI was like\u201d, \u201che was like\u201d, etc. This expression is used with reported speech, and also with sounds and facial expressions indicating different moods and attitudes. There are apparently equivalents of it in many other languages.<\/p>\n<p>A new quotative they found being used in London was \u201cThis is me\u201d \/ \u201cThis was me\u201d. I haven\u2019t heard this being used anywhere, have you?<\/p>\n<p>How do you introduce reported speech? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the seminars I went to this week was on innovation in London English. One interesting point noticed by the researchers was the range of quotatives being used. Quotatives are words and expressions used to introduce reported speech, including \u201cI said\u201d and \u201cshe went\u201d. The most common quotative among young Londoners is \u201cbe like\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}