Do Canadians end all their sentences with 'eh' ?

[JLM]

Yeah, I've heard that too, but not much lately. Now it's "and he's like... and then she's like..." And it still pisses me off. I'm no grammar Nazi, usage and meanings evolve and it's dumb to resist it, but Jaysus people, learn to speak intelligently. English is a fabulously rich and interesting language, these bastardizations of it add nothing to clarity or meaning, they're entirely redundant and I'm sure will eventually disappear because of that. Like, who uses "gnarly" anymore? No doubt some equally vexatious verbal tics will arise, and I'll continue to be pissed off at such abuses of clarity and meaning. But I'm a grumpy old guy who loves and treasures the power of the language, screwing it up to no purpose annoys me.

Hey, I'll bet what you are describing has been happening since man first became vocal. What the Hell does "23 skidoo" mean? Jargon and slang doesn't bother me so much as senseless repetition, language ceases to be interesting when you can predict exactly how a person is going to respond. One guy I worked with was very agreeable, but instead of saying "I agree", "I see your point", "That's what I've found", it was invariably "that's the ticket" 50 times a day. It's not so much what you say, it's how often you say it.

 

[jamaan]

I used to live in Vancouver for work, and I'd never heard anybody end a sentence with "eh"... The only exception was when it would come up in conversation that I was from south of the border, then the "eh"'s started flying out.
I'm still pondering what that was all about. Canadians only say "eh" to confuse americans!

 

[Nuggler]

'What I do hear a lot of is "y'know". I saw a interview with a hockey player (amateur) the other day and I swear about every 5th word was "y'know".'

Recently I saw in an interview the smartest woman in the world who also happens to be the wife of the smartest man in the world, Michelle Obama.

She uttered not a single sentence without saying 'you know' at least twice.

I just FREAKIN HATE "you know"............................eh


8O sometimes we play music in the key of eh.

 

[Ariadne]

Hello everyone, I'm from Belgium and I'm doing a survey on a Canadian stereotype for an assignement.
The stereotype I found is that all Canadians end all their sentences with 'eh'
Is that true ?
Thanks a lot for helping me! :smile:

That's like asking if all Canadians are uneducated hicks, or if all Belgians are uptight, anal retentives that need to pigeon hole in order to comprehend.

 

[PoliticalNick]

I'm just responding to the question in the OP, eh.

I don't think so, eh!