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The T which meets the word YOU is usually pronounced somewhat like CH, right? Such as “got ya!” or “what you...”. Just wonder how one can write the sound. Is there an agreeable way to write it? As we almost agree to write “gotta” for “have got to”?
goossun
June 18, 2004, 6:35pm
Just remembered that Q.T. in Pulp Fiction script had things like "whatch ya're gonna..." as far as I recall.
Is that a correct way of writing it?
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marta
August 10, 2004, 4:54am
't' and 'j' are pronounced as 'ch' when they are on the margins of the words e.g. in 'don't you'. Linguists call it 'palatalisation' and it's a kind of phonetic 'trick'. Similarly, it happens between 'd' and 'j' in 'd'you like it?'. Then it gives the sound of 'g'
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Dave (unregistered)
August 10, 2004, 6:55am
*Ahem* Mr Speedwell. There's nothing "sloppy" about "sliding" into "goddit". Less of the linguistic prejudice, please. ;)
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R Helms (unregistered)
June 19, 2004, 1:44pm
Informally:
got ya - gotcha
what you - whatcha
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speedwell2
June 20, 2004, 2:39pm
Incidentally, when used in "got it" as in "I understand" ("Oh, you don't have to tell me again, I got it"), you say both words without changing either one, though a sloppy speaker might slide into "goddit."
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speedwell2
August 12, 2004, 8:20am
Ha! Less of the sexist prejudice, please. Speedwell is a lady. :)
Didactic? Who, me? :D
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Dave (unregistered)
August 12, 2004, 1:01pm
Well, excuuuuuuuse me...! Who's sexist now? Why did you assume I was using "Mr" in the traditional male sense???
[Shuffles off discreetly.]
:D
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goossun
August 13, 2004, 4:21am
I'm sexist! Sexi[e]st, sexy st. or/and St. Sexy!
However does S EXIST? S: "X is T."
(Here S stands for Socrates; don't mix up with Samuel Beckett or Saddam)
Yeah, SEX is TEA.
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Jun-Dai (unregistered)
August 13, 2004, 4:24am
Okay.
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speedwell2
August 13, 2004, 8:15am
goossun, not in front of the children. ;D
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li
August 16, 2004, 8:34am
GOTCHA
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