Re: verbal diarrhoea

Tristan wrote:

>I was just wondering what various con- and natlangs (and dialects) use to
>'umm' or 'aah'.
>
>To start off with, Aussies tend to prefer 'umm', and I understand Japanese
>'anoo' (but I could be wrong).
Géarthnuns has the uninspired "ö" for "um", no doubt clipped from the
French. "Tsa", which is probably an unintentional rip-off of the
Japanese "sa" (and used slightly differently), is used to mark an
abrupt change of subject, a non sequitur, and usually translates as
"so," "well," or "by the way."

Kou