Re: THEORY: languages without arguments

Douglas Koller wrote:

>This is extremely common in spoken Japanese. I've been away a while, but I
>think the effect was to *sound* like an afterthought (as it's usually said
>in lower pitch and volume), thereby making the speaker seem more deferential
>by softening his/her utterance.
Interesting.  That is how she would say it.  I'm not sure why our sensei would
be deferential towards the gakusei -- but she was an odd cookie anyways.  (I
mean that with the highest respect)

Marcus