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Re: Free Speech, again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:42:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Brown writes:
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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?)
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Here in Minnesnoowda, we use an inflection of the voice at the end of a
> > statement such as "That's how language grows" which in essence implies "Are you
> > with me?" I never noticed how predominant it was until I moved away to Arizona
> > for 7 years and then returned. It's quite efficient <inflection> :-)
> >
> > I would suppose that up in your neck of the woods, JB, the "don'tcha know" is
> > still employed...
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> Heh. Nope.
Come to think of it, it may be more of a Norwegian thing...
> But I didn't realize until I left Canada and came back how much
> we really do say "eh" up here, eh?
You betcha.
JOHN
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