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II.  Another  sentence-final particle  tomo can replace sa  when  the latter
              expresses encouragement or assertion to negate someone's challenge.



                       B:        / ffi%bTl 295,  (cf. KS(A))











              [6c] is an acceptable sentence, but the use of  tomo presupposes s.o.'s
              insistence that life is not like a long journey, whereas the use of sa does
              not presuppose it.
          111.  The  sentence-final  particle  ne  is  fundamentally  different  from  sa,
              because the former indicates the speaker's request for confirmation or
              agreement  from  the  hearer,  whereas  sa  indicates  a  male  speaker's
              assertion. But  both  can be  used  in  a non-sentence-final position to
              draw the hearer's  attention to something as shown in [7]. Sa used this
              way can be used by both male and female speakers in very informal
              speech and sounds much more informal than ne. The excessive use of
              such ne and sa in a single sentence leads to vulgarity.



                    (Yesterday I went to see a movie, y'know, and there was power
                    failure, y'know, and I had a bad time.)
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