Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Sentence-ending particles in English Date: 23 Apr 2024 17:46:43 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 12 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de lVVjyx8Uk+fJR0ZoW4oyig0fe9MdLFA+yiF5pB8+TWHIwP Cancel-Lock: sha1:5MrOWgbz0VmV4OKLqznkgQMsAOw= sha256:bJXEPpchFH6TR7ZP30Ll2FvCVPAJg2lbflVCrZtuv1o= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1897 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >|Oh my gooood - uh .. . . >children, mind you, but young women - have been known to >tack on these little particle doodads to their sentences in Today, in the Web, I ran into something that might be related: |For a while I was obsessed with the song "Dreadlock Holiday" |by 10cc. The way he hit consonants so hard that they became |vowels. Like, "I don't like cricket - aaah / I love it - aaah" (quoted from the Web).