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From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
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Subject: Re: Sentence-ending particles in English
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:48:03 +0100
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 Ar an ceathrú lá déag de mí Aibreán, scríobh Stefan Ram: 

 >   When we're chattin' it up in Japanese, we tend to tack on all
 >   these little particles to our sentences, am I right? 
 > 
 >   Seems like the Brits have got a similar thing goin' on in English.
 >   I hear the kiddos over there sometimes talk like this:
 > 
 > |Oh my gooood - uh
 > 
 > |Whyyyy - yuh
 > 
 > |Why did you do thaaat - uh
 > 
 > |What the heeeell - uh
 > 
 > |Stop iiiit - uh
 > 
 > |Pleeeease - uh
 > 
 > |Omg shut uuuup - uh
 > 
 > |Give it baaack - uh
 > 
 > |But I need it though - wuh
 > 
 > (list comes straight outta the 
 > World Wide Web, the good ol' WWW.)
 > 
 >   Word on the street is that some of the young ladies - not
 >   children, mind you, but young women - have been known to
 >   tack on these little particle doodads to their sentences in
 >   English. Seems like it's a relatively fresh phenomenon, might
 >   even be takin' root stateside, at least in certain pockets.

I fear you are not working as hard as previously to disguise your origins as a
working class East Coast Estadounidense, born about 1930, Stefan!

I haven’t encountered the listed phenomenon, but most of my encounters with
(geographical) Britons under about 30 are doctors working in Northern Ireland.
I can say that they don’t produce these sentences in my presence, but also that
they are likely not a representative sample of the British population.

(I wouldn’t expect the political (as opposed to the geographic) Britons in
Northern Ireland to have much enthusiasm for this sort of fad, and I haven’t
encountered it from them either.)

-- 
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