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Re: Free Speech, again
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 03:23:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> Most importantly, you haven't told me where "ne" came from.
I honestly don't know! Must be some other forum I hung out on or something.
Or maybe I made it up? Who can say.
I use it to mean "yes?" (as in, "do you agree?") and only at the end of
sentences.
Anyone recognise it?
Google wasn't much help. No pudding was harmed in the search, near as I can
tell, fortunately.
But I did find some interesting sites trying to find it (nebraska, sailor
fukus, buddhism, dvds in Polish) Here's one picked more or less at random
for you.
http://www.kisho.co.jp/Books/book/chapter10.html
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| (...) It may be a brazilian contraction of "não é?", "né?" (without the accent, which is not standard in many brazilian keyboards). It translates to "isn't it?" in English. But really, I'm guessing here... HTH (somehow!), Pedro (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Most importantly, you haven't told me where "ne" came from. Very clever omission--what are you hiding? (...) I've wondered about something like that. I believe the Turing test hypothesizes that a computer convincingly able to mimic human (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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