Re: [Lingo] you have got to be kidding

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:04 AM, steve smith wrote:

> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Actually, there's no "fuckin'" in 冗談じゃねぇぞ！  To get  
> > that, it
> > needs to be てめぇ！冗談じゃねぇぞ！
> Except for や、ゆ、よ、つ, I haven't seen the small kanji
> like 「ぇ」 before.  What are they??  I noticed I can make
> them on my dictionary but have no idea how they are created
> from the IME.

usually you have to xe for a ぇ, xa for an ぁ and so on.
They are nice for emphasizing things (like the ねぇ which  
doesn't really exist afaik but shows that you speak a long え  
here {while I wonder why no one writes ねぃ which would be the  
right way to lengthen an え-sound})

Niels