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It's a beautiful language we've got (aussie.zone)

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

I don't get; no idea what they're saying.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A slightly more recognisable way of writing it would be "d'ya eat yet?" But "d'ya eat" becomes elided even further down to "dyeat", which ~~can be reanalysed as "jeet"~~. I'm not really sure what the phonotactics are behind "yet" becoming "chet", but in this sentence...yeah, it just kinda does.

edit: wait no I worked out why "chet". It's the /t/ at the end of "jeet". /tj/ becoming /tʃ/ is very common across English.

edit 2: to be more precise, dy (/dj/) becoming j (/dʒ/) is also yod coalescence. So it's all about yod coalescence + allision.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did you eat yet

Didja eatchet

Jeet chet

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