Gyaru speaking and なんだけど / んですけど


In a couple of anime I watched (namely, _Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru_ and
_Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman_ ) there is a gyaru character, and I noticed they
speak often using なんだけど and similar expressions as sentence ending, like:

> もう最悪なんだけど
>
> ちょっとどうしたの？暑いんだけど
>
> 見てほしかったんじゃないのかよって何あの言い方？ありえないんですけど

I tried looking around for some info about this, but I could find anything
relevant beside some translation that tries to express it as "damn" or
something similar, which backs my feeling that it adds emphasis.

I'm wondering if it's something like akin to other role languages, maybe a way
to emphatize what's being said _and_ stress the gyaru character of the
speaker, but I'm not sure if there is something more.




It is not wrong to think some of the phrases as typically gyaru-ish, but the
kind of ending けど can be used in general to make a statement indirect (終助詞#1
[here](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%91%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A9%E3%82%82/#jn-68969)).

Implied feelings depend on the meaning/context, but complaint/grudge is one of
the typical ones, as all of your examples and the following questions.

  * [けど at the end of the sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2086/%E3%81%91%E3%81%A9-at-the-end-of-the-sentence)
  * [How can I translate けど in this sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12034/how-can-i-translate-%E3%81%91%E3%81%A9-in-this-sentence)

* * *

Taking an example from the first link,

> いいですけど

is more or less equivalent to

> It's okay, but...

What is suppressed in '...' depends on context ( _I'm not happy_ , _It's not
perfect_ etc.). I guess saying 'but' emphatically does not really work. In
Japanese, using けど a bit strongly would suggest that some complaints are
omitted, by which 'complaint' aspect of the sentence is emphasized than in
いいです, which can be neutral.

That said, in the sentences of the question, けど means almost nothing. That is,
ありえないんですけど is mostly the same as saying ありえない, which is already a complaint.
In this sense, けど (of this usage) is simply an ending particle used (more) by
younger people.




It is not wrong to think some of the phrases as typically gyaru-ish, but the
kind of ending けど can be used in general to make a statement indirect (終助詞#1
[here](https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E3%81%91%E3%82%8C%E3%81%A9%E3%82%82/#jn-68969)).

Implied feelings depend on the meaning/context, but complaint/grudge is one of
the typical ones, as all of your examples and the following questions.

  * [けど at the end of the sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/2086/%E3%81%91%E3%81%A9-at-the-end-of-the-sentence)
  * [How can I translate けど in this sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/12034/how-can-i-translate-%E3%81%91%E3%81%A9-in-this-sentence)

* * *

Taking an example from the first link,

> いいですけど

is more or less equivalent to

> It's okay, but...

What is suppressed in '...' depends on context ( _I'm not happy_ , _It's not
perfect_ etc.). I guess saying 'but' emphatically does not really work. In
Japanese, using けど a bit strongly would suggest that some complaints are
omitted, by which 'complaint' aspect of the sentence is emphasized than in
いいです, which can be neutral.

That said, in the sentences of the question, けど means almost nothing. That is,
ありえないんですけど is mostly the same as saying ありえない, which is already a complaint.
In this sense, けど (of this usage) is simply an ending particle used (more) by
younger people.

