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Re: verbal diarrhoea

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, September 14, 2001, 10:18
"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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