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The dialogues below are said by an old man to stop a fight between young guys
in two separate speech balloons. The first one is a screaming-type speech
balloon which he shouted at them and the later one is a normal speech balloon
which he said in a milder tone.

> First balloon: おっと よしな よしな くだらねえなぐりあいなんぞやる **のは！**
>
> Second balloon: どうせ やるんなら堂々と正式の拳闘でケリをつけたらどうなんだい

According to my understanding, the particle 「のは」 used for nominalizing the
preceding verb and making it to be a topic marker. I would like to know why it
has to be put at the end of the sentence.
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What is the purpose of putting 「のは」 at the end of a sentence?
Basically the sentence has been reversed.

> よしな くだらねえなぐりあいなんぞやるのは！

is the same as

> くだらねえなぐりあいなんぞやるのは よしな！  
>  Stop it with all that stupid fist-fighting!

This な, by the way, is different from the one in よすな (don't stop!). It's an
order to do something, rather than not to do something. It's most likely from
なさい.
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I think he's just saying it in reversed order:

> よしな くだらねえなぐりあいなんぞやるのは！

Reversed becomes:

> くだらねえなぐりあいなんぞやるのは よしな！

or in more formal Japanese:

> くだらない殴り合いなんぞやるのはよせ！

On a side note, from what I've read, the old's man's style of speaking might a
more of a dialect where くだらない becomes くだらね and よせ becomes よしな.

Other examples I've seen of this slang are: 面目無い → 面目ねえ 食べろ → 食べな

Interestingly I've only seen this speech style from old men.
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