Yeah, Seattle

Anne Gilbert avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET
Tue Nov 23 04:08:31 UTC 1999


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Subject: Yeah, Seattle


> I have two questions: 1. Is this really a distinguishing feature of
Seattle
> (youth?) vernacular? and
> 2. what exactly is it? A matter of intonation, of pronunciation, of
placement
> in discourse, of frequency of use?
>
> A writer for the Seattle Times, Jean Godden, included this item in a
column
> on Crotty's book without further comment, thereby implicitly agreeing with
> it, I suppose, but not helping the explanation.

I'm from SEattle, and I've heard some kids around here talk that way, but
I'm not sure if this particulary type of speech is peculiar to Our Fair
City.  My daughter(lives in California), says "yeah, yeah, yeah", all the
time.
Anne Gilbert



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