"Is it" appended to questions

[Russ McClay]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:

> South African English is known to have that tag question. See:
>
> http://www.askoxford.com/globalenglish/types/

Good call on that, Ben.  I worked with a South African
here in Taipei a couple of years and started doing it
myself... =)

It's used very much like, "oh is that so?", "oh, really."

Me: "I just got back from down south."

SA friend: "Is it."

-r

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