• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    I’m gonna need some source on the Portuguese origin of ‘ne’, it sounds too much like the misinfo that arigatou comes from obrigado.

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      6 months ago

      It’s actually from Korean. The Portuguese arrived at least 700 years after the attestation of Japanese “ne”.

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        6 months ago

        That’s kinda what I was thinking, the Korean use of Neh can be flexible enough to be used as a past particle. The Japanese like to ignore or outright white wash the influence and impact of Korean culture on the island.

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      6 months ago

      i dont know if it really came from portuguese, but ‘né?’ as a contraction for ‘não é?’ is a real thing, and it really does match the use of japanese ‘ne’ and english ‘innit’