Talk:more like
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Equinox in topic sentence-final
sentence-final[edit]
Is this meaning the same as the one in the following sentence? It isn't overhearing by accident, it's more like eavesdropping. --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sentence-final "more like" is (I think) mainly British informal, and has a certain shade of meaning. "X? Y, more like!" means something is not X at all but purely Y; it's a criticism... whereas "more like X than Y" is standard neutral English, merely comparing which thing is more X or Y. Equinox ◑ 22:06, 20 November 2019 (UTC)