Re: CHAT: ...y'know

Raymond Brown wrote:
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>Basically, man, like, I encounter these, um, sort of space fillers - =
know
>what I mean? - when, um, basically, one of my students is sort of =
trying to
>explain, like, why he sort of arrived late, man, like, this morning or,
>kind of, y'know, didn't meet this, er, sort o' deadline thing, right, =
know
>what I mean, man.
>
>Ray.
>
>PS - in SW London, this use of 'man' has become epicene among the =
younger
>generation; female students even use this mode of address when speaking
>among themselves.  Does this occur elsewhere?
>
In Denmark, young people here say 'mand' /m&n?/ (meaning 'man') and=20
'ligesom' /'lisOm/ (meaning 'like') in much the same way. They also=20
used 'alts=E5' /'&l?sO/ (meaning something like 'I mean...' or '...is=20
what I mean'). Perhaps its a Germanic phenomenon, or maybe they=20
simply adopted it after watching too many American TV series.

-kristian- 8)