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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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