Hinglish and "innit"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Nov 8, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Doug Wilson wrote:

> "Innit" may look cute but in my limited experience the common
> South-Asian-English tag question under discussion is just plain old
> "isn't
> it" ... although no doubt it's sometimes simplified in
> pronunciation as it
> is in US or UK English also. I think the distinctive point is that
> it is
> invariant and can follow any verb,...

i thought it was understood that all the tags we've been talking
about in this thread are invariant.

arnold

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