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bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did you eat yet

  Didja eatchet

  Djeet chet

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