Sujet : Sentence-ending particles in English De : ram (at) *nospam* zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Groupes :sci.lang Date : 14. Apr 2024, 17:27:16 Autres entêtes Organisation : Stefan Ram Message-ID :<particles-20240414172532@ram.dialup.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.