"Eh" Tip of the Day
I know, I know. We all make fun of Canadian words like "aboot," "zed," and of course "eh." But three weeks with more than a few Canooks has taught me the marvelous benefit of the that third little word. The English language tends to be less inflexion dependent that many others. So, despite our best efforts, our mouths often get ahead of our brains, our inflexion goes awry, and what we intended to be a question comes out more like a statement, leaving the hearer perplexed. Here's where the "eh" comes in. In that split second that you realize you've mis-inflexed your sentence, throw in the "eh" at the end and your audience will know exactly what you meant to say. Perfect, eh?
-inspired by The Keiser and Hogie
-inspired by The Keiser and Hogie
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I know someone who picked up "Ten-four" from using the Nextel phones as walkie-talkies here in the Bluegrass. Imagine "Ten-four" in a silky South African accent. It's entertaining.
1. Rad
2. Bloody
3. Right (British)
4. Byyyyye (the long, drawn-out KY farewell.. but for the record, I hate "y'all")
5. Mate
And that, my friends, is the proper way to employ that phrase. Rock on, Claire. You can be in my band anyday.
A prime example would be JD and I roaming around Porta Susa in searh of a friend saying, "Laura-Jo, dove' you?"
Try it sometime, I'm sure you wil find yourself pleasntly amuzed.