Re: verbal diarrhoea

"Damon M. Lord" <LordDM@C...> wrote:
> Tristan Alexander McLeay 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).
>
> Wessisc uses "æ" (pronounced as in English "bad"), or "ah" (as in
> English "father").
>
> Japanese, if I remember aright, is "ee tou..." - not come across
> "anoo" yet.
Oh I remember that :)

I noticed that they said that a lot while I was on exchange in Japan. In
fact, as some of my friends will say, for a while after the trip, I was
noticed to hesitate in Japanese thusly! :P

No, but "eetoo wa" with the /e/ drawn out emphatically seems to be a common
form of Japanese verbal diarrhoea.

Off Topic but On Topic:

If you don't contain enough moral fibre, do you get moral diarrhoea?

Imperative

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