It's a beautiful language we've got

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• bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you eat yet

    Didja eatchet

    Djeet chet

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• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very true. A sentence is not perfect when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

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• notgold@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck I had hope boganly true this is

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• MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the American South, it’s the same.

  There’s a comedian, Jeff Foxworthy who does a bit about it.

  A: D’jeet yet?

  B: Naw

  A: Y’ont to?

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Love that routine.

    Hey’d yeet chet?

    Nawd ju?

    Y’awnt to?

    Aight

    I still use “Sinch y’is” like “sinchyiz up, get me a beer?” (Since you is)

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My dad’s line is “while you’re up”. No further detail. Depending on time of day, this may be a request for beer or for tea.

      And whether or not you actually are up at the time is immaterial.

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    • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, this is how it went! Thanks for filling in the details!

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah nah. I’ve never heard this.

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  • DistractedDev@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s saying “did you eat yet?”

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• clif@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Similar in the US deep south:

  “Jeet yet?” (Did you eat yet?) No “Yontoo?” (Want to?)

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve heard it pronounced “Yawna?”

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• spacesatan@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Aussie/Yinzer handshake www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jeet Jet%…

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• Zekas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can I have an etymology for this though?

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you eat yet

    Didja eatchet

    Djeet chet

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In England you say “alright” and they say “alright” back, regardless of what’s going on in their life. Nothing more is needed.

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are we doing the redditor thing where we pretend every Australian speaks like an eastern states bogan?

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do the central and western bogans speak like?

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• TK420@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same in Baltimore

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  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah Pittsburgh too

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