Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Utopian quote

Thanks… not sure I understand your 2nd point tho

A senior manager in his e-mail message to a software developer.

In the Doctor Who episodeUtopia’, a member of an alien race speaks so that she ends each of her sentences with ‘tho’ /ðɒ/. She considers not using this ending to be extremely rude—or even obscene.

In the manager's message, ‘tho’ is apparently used as an informal contraction of ‘though’.

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