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   Stefan Ram to Stefan Ram   
   Re: Sentence-ending particles in English   
   23 Apr 24 17:46:43   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >|Oh my gooood - uh   
   . . .   
   >children, mind you, but young women - have been known to   
   >tack on these little particle doodads to their sentences in   
      
     Today, in the Web, I ran into something that might be related:   
      
   |For a while I was obsessed with the song "Dreadlock Holiday"   
   |by 10cc. The way he hit consonants so hard that they became   
   |vowels. Like, "I don't like cricket - aaah / I love it - aaah"   
   (quoted from the Web).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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