Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Eh

I spent about three years in Toronto for university, during which time I picked up the infamous Canadian "eh." I tend to forget how recognizable that habit is when I'm in Europe---most people think I'm just American because of my generic (well, whatever generic is) North American accent. But it was a dead give-away to the American girl that I was talking to the other day that I'd spent at least some time in Canada. It's really hard to hide it when you use "eh" like, 15 times in a matter of 3 minutes, eh.


The funny thing is, because I use "eh" so much, it's rubbed off on G as well. And G's British-pan-European English combined with the Canadian-eh-rubbed-off-from-Japanese-girlfriend makes for a pretty exotic combo.

Anyway, G and I are planning a trip to Toronto and NY in the summer, and I can't wait to go back to the land of Eh.

5 comments:

  1. Toronto and New York in the summer?? Fantastic! Lovely cartoon too, as always!!

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  2. Thanks B! And jaaa! I'm really excited because I haven't been back in over 3 years. :) Yay!

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  3. See you this summer, eh!

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  4. T: Yeah, eh? (hahaha. That wasn't even on purpose!)

    Steflon: YEAHHHHHHHHH!

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