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Sure I know… lookit… this is it…yah, yah, yah…desperate…I’m sure…
These and similar expressions will be familiar to anyone who’s ever had a conversation in Ireland. Known to linguists as ‘back channeling’, they are verbal and non-verbal cues used to signal that the listener is paying attention to the story. The speaker and the listener collaborate in telling the story through these expressions. Back channeling is among the hallmarks of Irish conversation that I have incorporated into this song, along with the fast pace, rhetorical repetitions, talking across each other, disagreement couched in the mildest of terms, and the Ulster dialect of English.
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