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Also fun to try: justifying ones use of "innit" as a general purpose tag with reference to the french "n'est-ce pas." This drives people up the wall, as there's
by JonnieCache 13y ago
Also fun to try: justifying ones use of "innit" as a general purpose tag with reference to the french "n'est-ce pas." This drives people up the wall, as there's no comeback to it, and it invokes the shallow europhilism which the kind of person who tells me off for saying "innit" typically indulges in constantly.
- Osmium 13y agoDon't disagree with you, but I imagine those people would have less problem with "isn't it?" vs "innit?"
- JonnieCache 13y agoTrue, but that would overlook the other purpose of linguistic tags like that, which is to improve the rhythm of speech. The french know all about this. Plus I just like saying it.
- tankenmate 13y agoEven though the French themselves drop consonants like crazy; try pronouncing n'est-ce pas with all the written consonants. EDIT: typo