Re: Didn't
I, revs per minute and so I was like...
Posted
by The Fallen on January 09, 2002 In Reply to: Innit?
posted by Word Camel on January 08, 2002
: Does any one know where
the peculiar practice in some parts of London of adding a rhetorical question
to the end of a statement originates? For example, "I went down the pub, didn't
I?"
: As an aside, I have a friend from New Zealand who spent her first months
in London politely asking "Did you?", every time!
Despite being a Londoner and
therefore well aware of the above, I have no idea why it has come about. Similar
is the usage of "and so I turned to him and said... and so he turned to me and
said" when verbally recounting a dialogue, which gives the impression that both
speakers are permanently spinning at a reasonably high rate of revolutions per
minute.
Equally as strange is the more recent US practice of "and so I was like..."
to mean "and so I said..." I'd be interested also in knowing when/where this came
about.
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