什 什么产业来着 对吧 印刷产业
“What industry? Printing industry.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I'm getting flustered and forgot. What is it again?”
什 什么产业 来着 对吧 印刷产业
“What industry? Printing industry.”
“What else? You can't even articulate it. You shut up!”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
When flustered or experiencing memory lapses in professional contexts, Chinese speakers use tags like 对吧 to pull listeners into agreement and lessen awkwardness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
was it again (auxiliary recalling past information)
Placed at the end of a sentence to signal that the speaker once knew the information but temporarily forgot it.
right?; isn't it?
Used as a conversational tag to seek quick confirmation or reassurance from the interlocutor.
Softens the assertion into a tentative guess, soliciting validation.
