• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    8 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.

    • ZagorathEnglish
      291·
      8 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.

      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.

  • notgoldEnglish
    15·
    8 months ago

    Fuck I hate how boganly true this is

  • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
    13·
    8 months ago

    In the American South, it’s the same.

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

    A: Djeet chet?

    B: Naw

    A: Y’ont to?

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      6·
      8 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)

      • Zagorath
        5·
        8 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.

      • MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        That was my first inclination as well.

        I do think it’s interesting the similarities between the American South accents and the former British colony accents. I saw a documentary once that said there’s an accent from some island in Virginia (or maybe the Carolinas) that is virtually unchanged from the British accent, as was spoken in the 1700s

  • clif@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    Similar in the US deep south:

    “Jeet yet?” (Did you eat yet?)

    No

    “Yontoo?” (Do you want to?)

  • NigelFrobisher
    2·
    8 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.

  • CEOofmyhouse56
    32·
    8 months ago

    Yeah nah. I’ve never heard this.

    More like ya had tea yet?