User talk:NiRose

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Edits to the You article
Can you explain your edits to the You article? I don't understand what you are trying to convey. 𝕃eegrc (talk) 13:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey, I am trying to convey that "you guys" is undergoing incipient grammaticalization. It allows lenition of [g] in this context. For me, this can easily be pronounced as [ju ɣajz] or even [juajz]~[jajz] in quick speech. Compare this to "you guides" in "Where are you guides taking the boy scout troop today?" which does not allow lenition of [g]. Do you share this intuition? NiRose (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

I am not hearing it. :-) Does "[ju]" sound like the word "Jew"?  What does the "j" in "[ɣajz]" sound like?  (It would be great if you had a citation that reported on this pronunciation.)  𝕃eegrc (talk) 18:57, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey! I wrote this in International Phonetic Alphabet transcription. So [j] = j written as  in English. It is also used in the transcription of the diphthong [aj] (~[aɪ]~[aɪ̯]) as in "guy", spelled in so many many ways in English. This only citation I know of is sort of from Urban Dictionary. Not a great source. Otherwise, it's just from how certain people speech casually in my experience, and from my intuition. NiRose (talk) 19:05, 3 February 2016 (UTC)