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Re: Free Speech, again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:21:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
<snip>
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> > Must be from Anime or Manga then. Thanks for that, Mags... whew, that's all
> > settled.
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> Probably. Appending "ne" or "neh" as I've always seen it spelled is from
> the Japanese. I know I picked it up from James Clavell in years gone by,
> but Anime/Manga has certainly re-inforced it.
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> That's how language grows, neh?
> (That's how language grows, yes?)
> (That's how language grows, ne c'est pas?)
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> It's a 'tack onto the end of a statement to turn it into a rhetorical
> question' word. I'm sure there's some sort of linguistic term for that, but
> I don't know it.
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> James
Well, us Canadians have been doing that for years, eh [1]
Dave K
1- pronounced 'ay'--hearkens back into Canadian obscurity, but most
pronounced during the McKenzie Era, in which two Canadian Heros--Bob and
Doug popularized the expression, "Take off, eh!"
Dave K
-this post brought tou you by the Canadian letters "Eh, and H, and by the
number 49--you hosers!"
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| (...) Probably. Appending "ne" or "neh" as I've always seen it spelled is from the Japanese. I know I picked it up from James Clavell in years gone by, but Anime/Manga has certainly re-inforced it. That's how language grows, neh? (That's how (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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