frenchpet -> RE: Fem doms just don't have to make any effort at all, do they? (9/19/2005 5:54:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TVMistressHelen Good 'ere, innit! [:)] Could you (or someone else) decrypt this please :-) Many thanks - LA "innit" is "n'est-ce pas". It's an invariable tag question that comes from a language somewhere in "Indias" (I think it's either in Pashtu or Bengali, just read an article that mentionned it). I guess it's spreading very fast because it's very close to "isn't it", so people use it as a contraction of "isn't it". 'ere stands for here :) edit : I just checked what I had read. There isn't an agreement about the origin of "innit". Philip Hensher wrote in the Independant, in his article Rejoice that rhyming slang is no longer nang : "I suspect, too, that the fast-spreading invariable innit - "I went to the shops, innit?" is borrowed from a similar invariant question tag in Bengali. That's quite a subtle borrowing, bending English grammar into parallel forms, and though initially it just sounds incorrect, in reality it is created by a valid, different grammatical sensiblity." But that's just his opinion. Other people disagree. I'm a scientist, so I ain't gonna give my opinion...
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