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Subject: Re: Sentence-ending particles in English
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 21:15:55 +0000
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Aidan Kehoe wrote:

>  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!



      really?   i thought  Stefan Ram  was  German -speaking?
  
   
 i haven't noticed this  fad (?)  --  i'll look it up on Youtube.