--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . You feel the grimace on your face don't chya? >
Never before seen that "eye-dialectish" form written like that. By googling, at least these spellings can be found: doncha, dontcha, donchya, dontchya That phrase is also a rather nice, IMO, example of sandhi in English. In most cases sandhi in Sanskrit is an instance of a total or partial regressive assimilation, which, amongst a couple of other things, seems to have happened in 'doncha', etc. I guess the aspiration of 't' in 'don´t' has gradually become stronger, eventually "transforming" to a palatal affricate, due to 'y' in 'you' (ya) being a palatal semivowel? And stuff. > OffWorld >
