Conjunctions in spoken English

[Molly]

In conversational English (spoken), would you find yourself commonly adding a conjunction here?

"she likes cats he hates them"

e.g

Whereas she likes cats he hates them.

[prezbucky]

i'd most likely say "She likes cats but/while/and he hates them"

Though "them" would be probably shortened to "em"... and "em" really sounds just like "m".

It ends up sounding like "hates'm" or "hatesum".

(in conversation)

[Molly]

And here?

that one's blue the other green

[prezbucky]

in that case i'd probably insert "is" or just the "z" sound between "other" and "green" -- and likely just a pause (comma, i suppose) between "blue" and "the":

that one's blue.. the other's green

[Molly]

OK. Thanks.

[prezbucky]

it depends on a lot of things:

my audience and how comfortable I am with them, the weather (both outer and inner, as Frost might put it), the conversation's setting, etc.

[Molly]

[prezbucky]

nah, i'd prolly add "is" (or at least the "s" or "z" sound) between "other" and "green"

well think about being lazy, not at all uptight about making sure all parts of speech are there.

Start by saying "other is"

then "other ez"

then just "other'z"

that's what "other is" really ends up sounding like in conversational English (at least spoken by some here in the US)

WHEN, that is, we're laid-back/comfortable and not worried about annunciating properly.

[Taeglich]