91322
When I first heard 「っていねえし」 or similar phrases used as an expression of
surprise when the speaker finds their intended audience is not there any more
or doesn't exist to begin with, I thought it was 「でいねえし」, で (それで/そこで) meaning
"so" or "well". But it seems to be って.

> 「すみませーん。クラスメート熱あるみたいで…っていねえし」  
>
> 保健室についたが人気が感じられない。([source](https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=14385916))

>
> 「ま、いいかぁ。じゃ、とどめを‥‥っていねえし」([source](https://www.pixiv.net/novel/show.php?id=16415722))

If it's quotative and the contraction of と, can I understand it as coming from
one of these:

> ○○と言ったところで人は(もう)いないことに気付いた

> ○○と言ったところ、人は(もう)いないことに気付いた

> ○○と言いたいが、気が付くと、人は(もう)いないし

> ○○と言っているけど、気が付くと、人は(もう)いないし
CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-11-23T02:59:58.467
91320
2022-10-04T11:18:04.393
2022-10-04T11:18:04.393
10531
30454
question
grammar colloquial-language particle-って
How should I understand って in 「っていねえし」?
This type of って is a distinct phrase used when a conversation or a plan was
unexpectedly interrupted by something urgent. It's like "wait", "um" or "oh".

  * それで昨日ね……って、聞いてる？  
And yesterday... Wait, are you listening?

  * これを買って……って、3万円!? 高っ!  
I'll buy this and...what, 30,000 yen!? So expensive!

None of the dictionaries I checked explains this usage, but I also suppose
this derived from the quotative-って used at the beginning of a sentence.
Perhaps something like と言いつつ ("while saying this; meanwhile") or
[と言うか](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/85967/5010) was shortened to って.
CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-11-23T04:21:39.017
91322
2021-11-23T04:34:05.317
2021-11-23T04:34:05.317
5010
5010
91320
answer