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 <li>like-minded</li>
 <li>likewise (<i>de même, également</i>)</li>
-<li>likely (<i>vraisemblable</i>) peut être utilisé de façon ironique:  "That's a likely story."</li>
+<li><strong style="color:#033;">likely</strong> (<i>vraisemblable</i>) peut être utilisé de façon ironique:  "That's a likely story."</li>
 <li>unlikely (<i>invraisemblable</i>)</li>
 </ul>

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      <li>It feels like silk but maybe it's synthetic.</li>
      <li>I feel like hell this morning.</li>
-     <li>I felt like reading late last night.</li>
+     <li>I felt like working late last night.</li>
     </ul>

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      <li>It feels like silk but maybe it's synthetic.</li>
      <li>I feel like hell this morning.</li>
-     <li>I feel like reading tonight.</li>
+     <li>I felt like reading late last night.</li>
     </ul>

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 <h1>Discourse marker</h1>
-<p>Young people tend to overuse <i>like</i> as a discourse marker, in some cases it can mark a change of speaker/perspective, in others it seems to be used as a filler while a person is thinking of what they want to say.  It is not considered good usage, though it has become a characteristic of both US English and globish through the power of Disney:
+<p>Young people tend to overuse <i>like</i> as a discourse marker, in some cases it can mark a change of speaker/perspective, in others it seems to be used as a filler while a person is thinking of what they want to say, but more generally it marks a point at which eye-contact is frequent, the speaker warns the listener to conjure up a paradigm similar to what will be said next, attention!  cognitive work ahead. It is not considered good usage, though it has become a characteristic of both US English and like, you know, globisch. :D
 <ul>
 <li> "She was all like "I'm not doing it." and stuff until I told her there was blueberry pie in the oven."</li>
-<li> I was, like, you know, waiting.</li>
+<li> I was, like, you know, WTF.</li>
 </ul></p>

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 <i>aimer (d'amour)</i> --> <span style="color:hotpink;">love</span></p>
-Like <span style="color:hotpink;">love</span>, <span style="color:darkblue;">like</span> is a state verb.  It is generally considered <u>in</u>compatible with the grammatical structure <span style="color:darkred;">be + ing</span>.  However, social networks -- in particular facebook -- have helped to create an event reading of "like":  "I liked all of his photos this afternoon, each and every one of them!"
+<span style="color:hotpink;">love</span>, like <span style="color:darkblue;">like</span> is a state verb.  It is generally considered <u>in</u>compatible with the grammatical structure <span style="color:darkred;">be + ing</span>.  However, social networks -- in particular facebook -- have helped to create an event reading of "like":  "I liked all of his photos this afternoon, each and every one of them!"
 <h2>syntax: Verb + (direct) object</h2>

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 <p><i>like</i> is regular in both the present and past tense.</p>
-It takes -s [<span style="color:green;">s</span>] (3rd pers. sing.), and -d [<span style="color:green;">t</color>]
+It takes -s [<span style="color:green;">s</span>] (3rd pers. sing.), and -d [<span style="color:green;">t</span>]
 <h1>Discourse marker</h1>

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 <h3>Sense verbs (verbs of perception)</h3>
-When used with a sense verb (taste, smell, look, sound, feel) the meaning of the two words together (looks like) is often best translated more simply in French as <i>on dirait qu(e)<i>:</p>
+<p>When used with a sense verb (taste, smell, look, sound, feel) the meaning of the two words together (looks like) is often best translated more simply in French as <i>on dirait qu(e)</i>:</p>
 <ul>
 <li>look(s) like: <i>avoir l'air de, on dirait qu'il</i>

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 <li>prep: <span style="color:green;">laɪk</span></li>
-<li>verb: <span style="color:green;">laɪk // </span>laɪks (3rd pers. pres.)<span style="color:green;"> // laɪkt</span> </li>
+<li>verb: <span style="color:green;">laɪk // laɪks</span> (3rd pers. pres.)<span style="color:green;"> // laɪkt</span> (past)</li>
 </ul>