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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨zero_gravitas@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨ausmemes@aussie.zone⁩

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  • bestusername@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you eat yet

      Didja eatchet

      Djeet chet

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck I had hope boganly true this is

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  • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah nah. I’ve never heard this.

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    • DistractedDev@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s saying “did you eat yet?”

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  • clif@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve heard it pronounced “Yawna?”

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  • spacesatan@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Zekas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I have an etymology for this though?

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you eat yet

      Didja eatchet

      Djeet chet

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do the central and western bogans speak like?

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  • TK420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah Pittsburgh too

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