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[CONLANG] My favorite Mârshen

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Saturday, July 14, 2001, 15:42
Arminius:
> From French "n'est-ce pas?", the Mârshen word <nespâ> replaced all > the various English tag-question forms like "isn't it?" and "didn't you?".
Had the Mârshen founders hailed from Britain, they'd probably have used "innit" instead of "nespâ", as in "You arrived late, innit" and "Innit you arrived late?". (In mesolectal Bringlish those are "i rawz lej en" and "en i rawz lej".) --And.