Very true. A sentence is not perfect when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.
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?
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)
I'm sure that was the inspiration for this post.
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
Aight.
I don't get; no idea what they're saying.
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.
Did you eat yet
Didja eatchet
Jeet chet
Fuck I hate how boganly true this is
Similar in the US deep south:
"Jeet yet?" (Did you eat yet?)
No
"Yontoo?" (Do you want to?)
I've heard it pronounced "Yawna?"
Ooo, I forgot about that one.
Aussie/Yinzer handshake https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jeet Jet%3F
Same in Baltimore
Aaron earned an iron urn.
Yeah Pittsburgh too
In England you say “alright” and they say “alright” back, regardless of what’s going on in their life. Nothing more is needed.
Can I have an etymology for this though?
Did you eat yet
Didja eatchet
Jeet chet
In Maine we say Chuptah? instead of “what are you up to?” Truly the language of love.
Yeah nah. I've never heard this.
More like ya had tea yet?
It's saying "did you eat yet?"
