From Newsgroup: sci.lang
Stefan Ram <
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
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 snip!>
I have never heard even one of these before. I don't think it's much of
a thing, at least in my county. Then again, it sounds like a London
thing.
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.
Interesting, so a gender-based split in English? This would be quite fascinating to see, given the fact that this has been primarily a thing
of the past, such as in Sumerian society. As for particle usage, I see
no reason for this to be something only adopted by one of these
languages. I'm not quite sure where this might end up, but it'll likely
remain a regional thing or die out.
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