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

submitted 5 months ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/ausmemes@aussie.zone

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[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Did you eat yet

Didja eatchet

Jeet chet