よつばと！Vol 1 Discussion Thread (Beginner's Book Club)

[Kazzeon]

The hard way, baby.

The one I mention is the last one in colloquial contractions, but just reading Yotsuba, haha.

Quoting myself for the third time:

よつばと! Vol 5 Discussion Thread (Yotsuba&! Reading Club)

The slang seems to be the problem. くんな → 来んな → 来るな This is relatively common, we also see it in はいんな → 入んな on page 70 and 71. Quoting myself, if I may: We see here that やっていられない becomes やってられない and finally やてらんない. So, we can gather that R sounds, that is, れ and る (at least), become ん before N sounds. It’s a way to say less, I’d say, because of how sounds work.

Examples

[image] In this case, he’s saying, “I will go to the convenience store, okay?” Instead of 来るな as you …