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Re: Usso (was: website birth (Nice job Ferko))

From:SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>
Date:Saturday, December 1, 2001, 8:37
--- Kala Tunu <kalatunu@...> wrote:
> Laokou wrote: > > > Where did this come from? Is that specific to > that form, > or does that > > dialect use -otta for -te ita? And if so, what's > the > present? > > Don't know where it came from. It crosses the whole > tense: > > kakiotta kaite ita was writing > nomiotta nonde ita was drinking > etc. > """""""""""""""""""""""" > otta is maybe the past for oru? > I'm another ex-expat. I was working in Tokyo but was > often > in Osaka so I could hear the past "-outa" of the > kansaiben. > I didn't know that "otta" ending. > When touring Japan a few years later I could also > hear all > those funny ways to speak which I didn't like > because it > made me feel twice a foreigner --and there was no > extra need > for that really.
I agree, and what is particularly appauling to me is when the Tokyoite youth make this hissing sound at the end of words... especially the -masu form and tte-itta. Ugh, Ugh... Matt33 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com