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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
This is one of my favourites because it's just so fucking weird. I've explained it here before... but:
In France, some regions add "la" to the end of their sentences. It means "there" and it's an emphasis word, like Canadian "eh". In Newfoundland, we use the French version. But we say it "luh...". And it's just like Canadian "eh" in that it becomes more common the more rural, and more poor, you go.
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In actual fact, I am pretty sure that the "là" at the end of sentences is more common in French-speaking Canada than in France. Thouigh everyone does it to some degree.
People from the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region are stereotyped for this, and the colourful former mayor of Saguenay (Chicoutimi) was nicknamed Jean Là Là Tremblay.
But as I said - everyone does it sometimes.