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Re: Blowjobs and pant legs in Dutch (was RE: Grammatical Summary of Kemata)

From:Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2001, 21:07
 From Joe, quoting Maarten:

> > Adding "hoor" to the end of a sentence indicates that the speaker is >trying >> to convince the adressed person. It is sometimes used jokingly when you >are >> telling an obvious falsehood, by adding "echt waar hoor!". This is also >> something little children wuold say when they want to convince someone >they >> are speaking the truth, even though it sounds unlikely. > >like adding 'Honestly' at the end of a scentece.
It'd take that to be more like "so". "Is not!" "Is so!" ; "You can't do that." "I can so twirl 437 times without puking!"; "My Dad does so make $8M a year!". (Different in tone from "Really. My Dad does make $8M a year. Honestly he does."). Kou

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