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Old 10-22-2005, 04:43 PM   #1
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Eh is more of the Canadian version of Ya, what the Germans/Scandinavian say, so when a German says "I'm from Germany ya", its almost like "I'm from Canada eh"

Eh is like a mix of Yes and Hey

Alberta has a heavy German population epeccially in Rural, and i here them say Eh all th time, so it may have originated from German Imigrants
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Old 10-22-2005, 05:01 PM   #2
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I am frome Denmark !

yes the magnificent, microscopic land north of Germany!

What can I say about Denmark? New Zealand has sheep, we have pigs!
The population of Denmark:

Humans: 5.6 million
Pigs :25 million

Mabey Telchar can add some info about us.

(Do not listen too people frome Sweeden or Norway)
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Old 10-22-2005, 05:03 PM   #3
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Well, I'm from Massachusetts--Whooo! But I still say 'eh' so I don't think it's just specifically a Canada thing. More Canada and People Who Make Fun of Canada
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Old 10-22-2005, 06:06 PM   #4
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Well, I'm from Massachusetts--Whooo! But I still say 'eh' so I don't think it's just specifically a Canada thing. More Canada and People Who Make Fun of Canada

Well now that's not cool!! It makes me mad when people make fun of us Canadians. Sheez malka, be nice.

Amaduial, looks like it's time for you to do a little update on that list again.
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Old 10-22-2005, 06:17 PM   #5
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Well, I'm from Massachusetts--Whooo! But I still say 'eh' so I don't think it's just specifically a Canada thing. More Canada and People Who Make Fun of Canada
Since beginning the year long experience of living just several doors down from several Canadians (at my school for the hockey, as it were), my own accent has taken on such quality that I ask questions uh-boat language differences, but that's not a bad thing, eh?

And because of a friend from home who adopted her friend's accent, I've also started calling my hometown my hoom-tone.

Really, dialect has less to do with where you live than who you live with or converse with on a regular basis. And if you live in an accentedly diverse dorm, you pick up all kinds of neat pronunciations.
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Oh, come on, the winking smiley face means I'm joking. I really wish I lived there, actually.

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Right...and the first time I met my boyfriend's mom, the first actual sentence she said to me (aside from 'nice to meet you') was "Are you from Canada? You have a Canadian accent..." Absolutely no idea why, since I don't really know anyone from there. But it was funny.
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And what exactly do you mean by that? Denmark is the southern part of Sweden that we didn't want and therefore gave it's freedom

As you might have guessed, I'm from Sweden. Anyone else here from our wonderful country of busty blonds and 200 days icecold winter? I'm feeling lonely here with all this americans and englishmen and all...
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Old 10-22-2005, 06:56 PM   #8
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Oh, come on, the winking smiley face means I'm joking. I really wish I lived there, actually.
I know, I know. But do you really? Canada is a very nice place actually, besides all the polution there is of course yet still a wonderful place to live. I love it up here, except for the winter's. Now they are bad. So cold, and it doesn't help that you have a cold everyday of the year.
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Old 10-23-2005, 03:32 AM   #9
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And I am from that small, insignificant country people do or do not know as either Holland or the Netherlands, though I am also occasionally (wishing to be) from New Jersey, USA. And next year I shall probably be from Dublin, Ireland.

But let's not make things more complicated than they already are.

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I too am from that tiny little country more commonly referred to as Holland, though it's correct name would of course be the Netherlands.
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though I am also occasionally (wishing to be) from New Jersey, USA.
But... why? From my experience, New Jersey's nickname of The Garden State would do better to be changed to The State of Perpetual Impatience.

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So do we. Cows outnumber people in my hometown. You should have seen the city kids I rode home with on break as we drove further away from "civilization". They were distraught to learn that hardly anybody has cable internet connections. They couldn't believe that you have to drive more than five minutes to go shopping anywhere. It was a hoot.
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