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[–] tigeruppercut 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There are better cases for elision of sounds than iie and iya, as the latter is a different word, sort of like no and nope in English. For example in more formal contexts you'd use ~teiru at the end of verbs and pronounce the i vowel, but in casual speech it's elided to sound like ~teru.