particle means it gives emphasis

You can disadree, interject, agree and use it as "but"

so it would assert in the positive of the context

'oh YES you did"

You can often hear two germans just repeating "doch" at each other

Which is funny

yup

that is funny

Okay, so it's something that womenfolk find a way to do but expressed in a singular.

you can use it as emphasis like 'fuck'

Erm, singular word that is.

> doch
> doch
> nein doch doch
> aber doch nein
> DOCH!
> DOCH!

well, anyone who is trying to be a contrarian has an easy time of it

I'm understanding, even if I don't want to.

You could translate it as an english "although"

That is the closest one

meh, maybe

if used with something else

Das is doch smutlisch

Sounds like it's a bit more emphatic than although.

It is an expression of a contrarian point or a correction of some kind

That's the spirit of it

No precise meaning

what German lacks in intonation change it makes up for with emphasis words called 'particles'

Aye.

Ooh, never thought about it in that light

It's true though

So leaving out a word lieke 'mal' is a stronger assertion of commad of the more polite, "Hor mal zu"

as opposed to 'Hor zu!'

Mal does not have a direct tanslation either, but it has fewer options, so it is easier to explain

yup; you'd translate it using an idiom or intonation change

"one time" if translated literally or "one" (as in an unquantified amount of persons)

once

Ah that too

Wait, also as "let's"

but otherwise it just 'softens' the verb

"Mal schauen"

Schau mal

Dang, I never thought about these particles as having no fixed meaning

yeah, same thing; "let's go to the zoo" vs "we're going to the zoo"