I love this Cantonese particle and demand we absorb it into English.https://twitter.com/lokinhei/status/1209808723255783425 …
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Replying to @Pinboard
"la"? Is that close to English/Scottish "ye" (not a particle, if I have my grammar right...)
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Replying to @arclight
No, it's part of an intimidating family of Cantonese terminal particles that are subtle as hell.
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Replying to @Pinboard
I only know particles from my almost-non-existent Japanese; I need to look into this further...
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Replying to @arclight
There's a fun Language Log post about it https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=38229
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Replying to @henryfhchan @arclight
There's always someone in the comments on that site, for every language.
6:14 AM - 25 Dec 2019
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