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   Stefan Ram to All   
   Sentence-ending particles in English   
   14 Apr 24 16:27:16   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
     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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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