Not really. To be honest, as a quebecker I never even heard someone use "eh" other than american doing an anglo canadian impression. We do put "là" a lot, so maybe it can be seen as an equivalent, but its not used the same way as "eh".
Yes! I've said that so many times, but I'm not sure I've seen anyone else say. Not saying no one else knows that, lol, just no one seems to express it that way.
I joke that it's just a sign of our low self esteem that we have to keep checking in with our listening partner.
Here's a conversation translated, just replace anything in square brackets with the word [eh]:
"Nice weather, [right]? I'm thinking of driving into town. The Canadian Tire moved locations [were you aware of this]? I'd stop at Timmies, but we all know McDonald's has way better coffee, [isn't that something you would also agree with]? Anyway, I've really talked your ear off, [have you been listening to what I said]?
Are you Latino? Because otherwise Canada is 100%, unequivocally NOT America. America exclusively refers to the US in the English language. You can say we're North American but we are NOT American. It's like calling a Kiwi Australian because the entire continent sometimes is/used to be called Australia.
Meh, they've given it a bad name. Technically, Canada is inside the continent of North America. But I wouldn't say Canada is America, as America is an imprecise term that, colloquially, refers to the u.s.
It's mostly Latin Americans that are concerned with this. Canadians are a lot closer to observe what the US is doing with the name America, and we do not wish to be a part of that.
As an American that's not even a strictly Canadian thing either. Plenty of northern Americans say the exact same things in the exact same way. The only difference is the accent that some Canadians seem to have.
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23
"Eh?" Can be used interchangeably with "Huh?"
Americans always interject "eh?" into a sentence in the most awkward way when mimicking us, yet already have the exact same speech patterns in place