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Loads of languages around the word have a sentence-final particle that doesn’t mean anything on its own but serves as a vocative particle, creates a bond betwee
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
Loads of languages around the word have a sentence-final particle that doesn’t mean anything on its own but serves as a vocative particle, creates a bond between speaker and listener, softens the assertion for politeness sake, etc. Some varieties of UK English already used innit? that way. It’s pretty normal human linguistic behavior.
- JohnFen 3y agoBut that one is particularly grating because it's exactly the same thing that young children do when they're whining or begging.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoIf a linguistic behavior has spread widely enough for you to notice it, then obviously the bulk of people (or the bulk of that speaker’s people, at least) don’t find it grating.
- JohnFen 3y agoObviously so, but that doesn't affect the fact that it grates on me. This particular thing appears to be largely generational and rather regional so I don't encounter it frequently.
- arp242 3y agoIn Ireland people add "like" to the end of a sentence like. Quite a different way to use "like" than what this article talks about.
- gumby 3y agoYeah, Malay has "la" which gets tacked onto a sentence or phrase following rules that are intuitive but I doubt I could write down. My mum could use a single "la" as an entire sentence and we knew exactly what she meant, rarely something good.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Some varieties of UK English already used innit? that way. Perversely, the inhabitants of Birmingham (UK) favour "issit" for that purpose.