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Originally Posted by duo797
After that, I'm not by any means certain, but my hunch is that the speaker wasn't speaking in the tokyo dialect because they used や instead of だ (This is just a guess, but I'm pretty confident in my guess otherwise I wouldn't hazard my opinion.
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Truth is that was nothing but the Tokyo dialect. You won't hear that や used this way nearly as often elsewhere.
"Instead of だ"? That the Japanese use だ so often as a sentence-ender is a North American myth. Native speakers don't do it.