Brian: Great movie.
Betsy: Trash.
Brian: But you like action.
Betsy: Not cars.
Brian: Drift cars are a culture.
Betsy: Subculture. As in subnormal.
Brian: Some would say sublime. I have an idea. Your black Toyota. Paint some red stripes on that and we’d have a Mustang lookalike.
Betsy: Nope.
Brian: You sound dead set against it.
Betsy: Yep. End of discussion.
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Voice-over
Betsy is adamant. She signals this by ending her dissent "No" and assent "Yes" with the unvoiced plosive /p/. An audible punctuation mark. "Nope!" "Yep!" Signalling an incontestable, indubitable, incontrovertible viewpoint. An unequivocal. unarguable, unassailable position. This lady’s not for drifting.
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