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The Importance of Tag Questions in Conversations
Linguist robin lakoff identified teg questions as a female speech pattern. But studies have found that men use them at least as often as women. Powerful speakers such as doctors and teachers tend to use affective tags. The practical ones tend to be straightforward: I should close this, shouldn't i? Some are redolent of old hipsterisms like catch my drift.
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