Re: Sentence-ending particles in English

On 15/04/2024 4:27 a.m., Stefan Ram wrote:

   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.

Stefan, your usual disdain for specifying the origin of things you post about is even more maddening here. "World wide web" is not a source. Neither is "word on the street". I suspect you're just another carrier of "internet amnesia"...
Anyhow, I don't think I've heard any of the stuff above, but it does remind me of recordings I've heard of some (American) hell-fire preachers, who, when the heat is on, will say things like:
JESUS SAID - UH !!!
YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN - UH!!!
etc etc
I can't at the moment find a recorded example. It sounds to me like a kind of metric marker, perhaps born from an emphatic release of the final consonant.
Probably no connection with your "Brits" "kiddos".