In #Bulgarian, adding little fillers like "бе" or "ма" can instantly flip a phrase into something rude or at least very street-level colloquial. It's almost like the opposite of Japanese. Do other languages have small words that completely shift the tone like that?

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In #Bulgarian, adding little fillers like "бе" or "ма" can instantly flip a phrase into something rude or at least very street-level colloquial. It's almost like the opposite of Japanese. Do other languages have small words that completely shift the tone like that?

#Linguistics #Multilingual #Sociolinguistics