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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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