Man oh Man

I have written this blog so many times in my head.

It all started one fine day, in Richmond, Virginia. I was standing in for someone I don't know nor care about for a twenty20 cricket-ball league game. Packing up the kit at the end of the match, which we won quite thrillingly by the way, I was listening to the guys speak. And it happened....

I don't remember when or why I started catching this, but I was getting fascinated by the way every sentence ended with "man". "he doesn't know how to bat, man", "He is like that only, man", and so on.... it just kept on coming. I was mesmerized in this new angle to listening.

Wonder where it all started. 'da', 'ra', 'man', etc.. how did they creep into our vocabulary? and to such an omnipresent level? It feels like adding this suffix completes a sentence. Otherwise there is this hanging feeling, a touch of finality to everything we say. This suffix keeps the listener engaged, and is also probably an audible prompt for them to express their thoughts, and keep the conversation flowing.

Need to dig deeper into this someday. Apart from that, I don't know what to say, man.