Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: yeh

On the train to York I met a bloke who was often saying "yeh" at the end of 
his sentences. Is that some sort of regional pattern? The chap was a Yorker 
himself, by the way.
Cheers,
Enrico il Pentolaio.
-- 
What do you do with a B.A. in English? 


a 'Yorker' , yeh ? Is that your own contribution to our language ? I've 
never heard it  before , though I was born 20 miles from York , and have 
spent many happy hours on its racecourse (which I hope you visited) . Still 
, if it doesn't exist , someone would have to invent it . If New Yorker , 
why not Yorker? It does , though , have a meaning (probably not widely 
appreciated outside the English-speaking world) in the esoteric world of 
cricket .
I'm glad to see that , despite your lack of enthusiasm for English poetry 
(the best in the world) ,you managed to pick up a few of our more 
traditional rhymes - like the 'sleep tight' one , which I last heard my 
mother saying to me when I was small .
The reiteration of 'yeh' is neither local nor traditional - just a form of 
modern sloppiness , like 'like' or 'know what I mean?' ('knoworramin?')
Mike 

 like 'like' or 'know what I mean?' ('knoworramin?')
Now you're reminding me of a chick I saw last week on the tube talking aloud 
to her date. <<The other day I met Paul, and he was, like, "hey, what the 
hell d'you want? piss off!", so I was, like, a bit confused at first, but 
all of a sudden Bob came, and he went like "watchoo saying, Paul?" and that 
was, like, the prettiest thing he'd done for me since, like, ever. You know 
what I mean? etc etc>>
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 English poetry (the best in the world) 
Quite a strong statement! I would be glad to hear the objective proof of 
it :).

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The Eagle
(a fragment)
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson


'careful with money' , you mean . Yorkshiremen like to get value for money .
But they're not stingy .
Mike

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'Had we but world enough and time' ... (as another Yorkshireman said in a 
different context) .
OK , I recant (but , like Galileo , I still mutter sotto voce 'It's true all 
the same' ).
Mike 

 But they're not stingy .
Meglio dei genovesi, you mean?
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 ;-)
Oh no ! I can't let you do that ! What about trying Larkin , Chaucer , Byron 
, Shakespeare , Donne , Pope , Eliot ,  Frost , Duffy , Pound , Wordsworth , 
Dryden , Marlowe , anything - even McGonagall !
I think the word 'poetic' , applied to fiction , is a warning rather than a 
recommendation .
Mike


No - I'd better correct that before any Yorkshirewoman reads it !
Mike 

 a recommendation .
Non è facilissimo, ma preferiresti Finnegan's Wake di Joyce?
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 Non è facilissimo, ma preferiresti Finnegan's Wake di Joyce?
No-one I've met (including Professors of English) has ever got through 
Finnegan's Wake . You'd find it easier to learn Shakespeare and the whole of 
Elizabethan literature by heart . FW is the great white elephant of English 
literature , with the herd of Blake's prophetic books lumbering along behind 
, slightly smaller and greyer .
Mike

 greyer .
Di Blake mi accontento dei quadri.
:-)
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 thee e thy.
Uh? Ma no, anzi... è abbastanza intuitivo anche se non conosci nulla di quel 
periodo, ricordo che io ne lessi parecchio (be', le tragedie più note) anni 
e anni fa!
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