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"An anonymous author deplored the fact that he occasionally heard ladies of the middle class and above mixing (chanpon) the vulgarity and crudeness of teyo-dawa speech with the esoteric words of kango" jitsu ni renbin da wa
— Oct 02, 2013 10:22AM
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"... daughters of low-ranking samurai families. Intellectuals and educators also developed this origin narrative by locating the original speakers of these utterance-ending forms in pleasure quarters and teahouses."
— Oct 04, 2013 05:37AM
Sara M
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"... Ozaki Koyo ... warned in 1888 that a certain speech style with "strange" (iyounaru) utterance-endings, such as teyo, noyo, and dawa, now occured among elementary schoolgirls between close friends and seemed to be spreading among highschool girls and even adult women. He insisted that sensible ladies would never use there utterance-endings because the endings were originally part of the vulgar speech used by..."
— Oct 04, 2013 05:35AM