# Did you "plike"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 28, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894 "2014-06-28T22:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/1 "2014-06-28T22:32:21Z")
How did you pronounce “play like” when you were little? What other “personalizations” of words and phrases did you use that went away as you got older and more “hip” to the real world around you? Did you have other synonyms for “play like” other than “pretend?” ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/2 "2014-06-28T23:24:51Z")
My brother and I played Wadiff all the time when we were children. Wadiff…we had a million dollars? Wadiff…we were the only people in the world? Wadiff…we could fly? Wadiff…we were invisible? Half the fun was agreeing on the rules for each scenario. For example, it was always stipulated in the second one that we could drive, fly planes, and operate any kind of machinery. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/3 "2014-06-28T23:30:11Z")
Both my daughters, for quite a long time, maybe even into their early teens, used “lookit” to mean something like “look at that”. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/4 "2014-06-29T05:45:04Z")
Your all’s are better and I thought plike was _ours_ but…daryuh. My younger brother and I practically lived in the park for a while and one time a known-to-be-mean boy threw a dead snake at me there. “Pick it up, I dare ya!” We were at the swings. The snake was long and its throat was white and it was very dead so I picked it up and started swinging, mashing it in my hand against the chain. As I got higher I did my usual trick: turned upside down, wrapped my legs around the chains, and let go with my hands. Except this time I was dangling a dead snake over my head, upside down. Come to think of it, it might have been my finest hour. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/5 "2014-06-29T06:54:33Z")
My neighbors when I was a kid growing up in Los Angeles were from Arkansas and had some interesting words and phrases. The only one I can recall now was “pike like”, meaning pretend. “Let’s pike like we’re Indians!” ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/6 "2014-06-29T10:38:05Z")
My sister and I had “less’tend” - “Less’tend we’re pirates!” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/7 "2014-06-29T10:56:53Z")
My daughter didn’t like “swear words” but had a complete list of workarounds. One day I explained that her “freaking” was just “fucking” watered down and she was a bit mortified. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/8 "2014-06-29T12:21:02Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Both my daughters, for quite a long time, maybe even into their early teens, used “lookit” to mean something like “look at that”. My father still does this. I used the words “make believe” and “pretend.” I haven’t heard of “plike” or “play like.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/9 "2014-06-29T12:38:26Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > I used the words “make believe” and “pretend.” I haven’t heard of “plike” or “play like.” Perhaps in not quite so childish a context? “Let’s play like this is a terrorist attack. What’s our best strategy to avoid major disaster?” “Okay, let’s just play like this is a real life event and this happens.” “Would this scenario play like a desperate mom situation?” Any of those sound plausible at least? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-plike/691894/10 "2014-06-30T12:47:52Z")
Every time one of my nieces or nephews graduates high school, I encourage her (or him) to go to college and earn a Masters of Beeswax Administration.