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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 18, 2014 22:15:08 GMT -5
A few weeks ago we had a discussion about how people, from all walks, tend to start their replies with "so". I noticed it on NPR with interviewees.
"What to you think of the immediate turn in our relations with Cuba?"
"So what happened was..."
On that same note, has anyone noticed a tendency of regular people we run into every day ending their conversational responses with "right"?
for example:
"It's cold out there."
"I know, right?"
Or
"Collins Road is just nuts with traffic at that time."
"Right?"
Has anyone else noticed this? And if so, what started this whole "right" thing?
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Post by drlj on Dec 18, 2014 22:23:41 GMT -5
In Indiana, they say "Ain't it?"
Here is an example.
"So, you know them politicians is all lazy, ain't it?"
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 18, 2014 22:26:27 GMT -5
Right.
Mike
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Post by Chesapeake on Dec 18, 2014 22:56:23 GMT -5
So right.
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 19, 2014 1:40:04 GMT -5
Yeah, right, innit.
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Post by RickW on Dec 19, 2014 1:56:30 GMT -5
Pretty normal around here, Todd. No idea where it came from.
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Post by millring on Dec 19, 2014 7:06:48 GMT -5
Don't forget that all narrative must also be told in the present participle. The past tense is SO passé. Hence:
"So, Yesterday I'm logging onto the Soundhole and they're discussing the evolution of spoken language, right?"
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Post by Marshall on Dec 19, 2014 8:39:26 GMT -5
So, = Forget what you're talking about and listen to the important thing I'm about to say.
Right? = Now you can acknowledge that what I just said is real important and made your day.
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Post by millring on Dec 19, 2014 8:54:48 GMT -5
So, I'm actually thinking that the new use of "right?" as a tag at the end of a comment is sort of like saying "Isn't this crazy?!"
"They actually put ketchup on their hotdogs?!"
"I know, right?"
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Post by dradtke on Dec 19, 2014 9:45:32 GMT -5
<So, they actually put ketchup on their hotdogs>
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 9:49:48 GMT -5
So, I'm contemplating the nature of verbal tics that enter and leave our collective conversations over time when it hits me ... "people still eat hot dogs?"
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Post by Dub on Dec 19, 2014 10:23:35 GMT -5
…"They actually put ketchup on their hotdogs?!" "I know, right?" Eewwwww! |
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Post by Dub on Dec 19, 2014 10:24:24 GMT -5
So, I'm contemplating the nature of verbal tics that enter and leave our collective conversations over time when it hits me ... "people still eat hot dogs?" Don't ask that question in Chicago. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Dec 19, 2014 10:31:06 GMT -5
I put ketchup on my hot dogs.
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Post by billhammond on Dec 19, 2014 10:41:32 GMT -5
I put ketchup on my hot dogs. Me, too. Heinz. And chopped onions. |
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Post by drlj on Dec 19, 2014 10:43:52 GMT -5
In Chicago, hot dogs are haute cuisine. If a person even looks like he/she is going to put ketchup (or catsup) on one it could result in physical harm to that person. At the very least it will result in ridicule and possible shunning.
It is just not done. It is an abomination.
"So, dis guy, he comes inta da Super Dawg and he orders da number 1, right? So, dat's cool, but den da guy sez do ya got any Ketchup and asks fer Heinz, right? An' Lou, he gives him such a look and he says , 'So , what you from Ioway or, even worse, Minnasoda or sumpin', right?' An da guy he turns reddar den the very ketchup he is askin' fer,right? So it serves him right, right? Da philistine."
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Post by millring on Dec 19, 2014 10:49:06 GMT -5
"people still eat hot dogs?" Daily. Mustard, relish -- and now since my store stopped stocking Mt Olive bread'n'butter relish, bread'n'butter slices, Frank's Red Hot on a whole grain bun. |
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Post by millring on Dec 19, 2014 10:50:26 GMT -5
I put ketchup on my hot dogs. Some day you are going to get caught.. Such risky behavior is not practiced without exacting a price. |
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Post by coachdoc on Dec 19, 2014 14:53:43 GMT -5
So, I'm contemplating the nature of verbal tics that enter and leave our collective conversations over time when it hits me ... "people still eat hot dogs?" Assoblutely! Especially at Fenway or any other handy ballpark. Always, and only, with mustard. Period. Right? |
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Post by John B on Dec 19, 2014 15:16:14 GMT -5
In Chicago, hot dogs are haute cuisine. I much prefer them haute rather than cold. |
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