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In the Ghibli film _The Castle of Cagliostro_ , there is a scene where Lupin,
a male character who mainly makes use of stereotypical-masculine language
throughout the whole movie, utters the following line:

> それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いてよ 逃げちゃった

I have seen uses of ね as an interjection in the middle of utterances, so I
thought that this use of よ was a similar case, but while doing research for a
school assignment, I encountered readings on the "teyo-dawa speech (てよだわ言葉)"
(<https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/10494.ch01.pdf>,
<https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%B3%E6%80%A7%E8%AA%9E>, etc), which made
me wonder if the above utterance should be counted as an example of "teyo-dawa
speech."

Since it is my first time seeing よ following a non-request -て form, I am
confused whether or not this interjecting よ should be considered a deliberate
use of "teyo-dawa speech" by the character to exaggerate his speech for the
purpose of mocking himself for running away. If this should not be considered
"teyo-dawa speech," what is the function of よ in the utterance, and what are
other examples of よ being used this way?
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anime gender role-language feminine-speech particle-よ
What is the function of よ in this context, and is this よ a deliberate imitation of "feminine" てよだわ言葉?
According to Jisho.org [here](http://jisho.org/search/%E3%82%88), よ in the
given sentece is defined as "3 used to catch one's breath or get someone's
attention ​in mid-sentence".

> ## よ
>
> Particle
>
>   1. indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.​at sentence-end  
>  １０００円かそこらで買えますよ。 _You can buy it for a thousand yen or so_.
>
>   2. used when calling out to someone​after a noun  
>  恋人よ、我に帰れ。 _Lover, come back to me_.
>
>   3. used to catch one's breath or get someone's attention​ in mid-sentence
>
>   4. yo!​
>
> Wikipedia definition
>
>   5. Yo (kana)​よ, in hiragana, or ヨ in katakana, is one of the Japanese
> kana, each of which represents one mora....
>

Apart from "teyo-dawa speech", the よ in this given sentence is called one of a
"ねさよ言葉｛ことば｝ ne-sa-yo speech".

ね and さ are used as the same function as よ in the given sentence as:

(A) それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いて **ね** 逃げちゃった (女性的、子供 female, child)  
(B) それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いて **さ** 逃げちゃった (関東弁 Kantou dialect)  
(C) それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いて **よ** 逃げちゃった (男性的 male)

Anyway, the basic form of the given sentece is:  
(D) それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いて逃げちゃった

### Example

(E) 俺が道を歩いていたら昔の友達に会った。 _When I was walking the streets I met my old friend_.  
(F) 俺が **よ** 、道を **よ** 、歩いていたら **よ** 、昔の **よ** 、友達に **よ** 、会った **ぜ** 。  
Though the last ぜ does not belong to the group of nesayo-speech, it is usually
used at the last of the sentence like (F) by a man.  
It is better not to imitate (F), because it is a poorly behaved way of saying.

### Bonus

(D) それがコテンコテン しっぽ巻いて逃げちゃった  
If you rewrite (D) plainly, it will be like (G).  
(G) 彼がどうなったかと言うと、それが、彼は誰かにコテンパンにやられ、負け犬のように尻尾{しっぽ}を巻いて逃げたよ。  
The interpretation of (G) in English will be like:  
_As for him, he was beaten black and blue and turned tail and ran_.

  * "コテンパンにやられる" is a passive form of "コテンパンにやる". "コテンパンにやる" is also said "コテンパンにやっつける" in the same meaning. They both mean "to beat a person black and blue".
  * "尻尾｛しっぽ｝を巻｛ま｝いて逃｛に｝げる" is an idiomatic phrase in Japanese that expresses figuratively how a person behaves when he loses the fight by quoting how a dog sneaks away or runs off with its tail between its legs when the dog loses the fight.

Since I learned that they use "to turn tail and run" to describe the same
situation in English, it is very interesting that these expressions are very
similar in both languages.
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