Did you eat yet
Didja eatchet
Djeet chet
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bestusername@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I don’t get; no idea what they’re saying.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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bestusername@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I don’t get; no idea what they’re saying.
Did you eat yet
Didja eatchet
Djeet chet
Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 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.