Meaning of てさ after て form


I could not find anything about it. What does it mean?

> 崇君は漫画ばっかり読んで **てさ** 。




> 「読{よ}んで + **て** + さ」＝「読んで + **いて** + さ」

「いて」 (てｰform of the progressive 「いる」) is very often contracted to 「て」 in
informal speech.

We say 「読んでて」、「見てて」、「食べてて」、「してて」, etc. You just cannot speak natural informal
Japanese without using this いて-to-て contraction dozens of times a day.

Next, the sentence-ending particle 「さ」.

「さ」 is used to make a light and casual (and sometimes careless) kind of
declaration. This sentence-ender does not have a clear meaning of its own. It
is the kind of sentence-ender that some people use quite heavily out of a
habit while others rarely do. Without exaggeration, some actually use it at
the end of every phrase (or even word) like:

> 「あのさ、オレさ、昨日{きのう}さ、東京{とうきょう}でさ、トラブっちゃってさ、・・・」

In the real Japanese-speaking world, there is such thing as "one's go-to
sentence-ender". Some go to 「よ」, some to 「ね」, some to 「さ」, etc. What type are
you?

Here is an extremely famous children's song for you. Lyrics by a さ-type
person.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T3CkQWaKI>




> 「読{よ}んで + **て** + さ」＝「読んで + **いて** + さ」

「いて」 (てｰform of the progressive 「いる」) is very often contracted to 「て」 in
informal speech.

We say 「読んでて」、「見てて」、「食べてて」、「してて」, etc. You just cannot speak natural informal
Japanese without using this いて-to-て contraction dozens of times a day.

Next, the sentence-ending particle 「さ」.

「さ」 is used to make a light and casual (and sometimes careless) kind of
declaration. This sentence-ender does not have a clear meaning of its own. It
is the kind of sentence-ender that some people use quite heavily out of a
habit while others rarely do. Without exaggeration, some actually use it at
the end of every phrase (or even word) like:

> 「あのさ、オレさ、昨日{きのう}さ、東京{とうきょう}でさ、トラブっちゃってさ、・・・」

In the real Japanese-speaking world, there is such thing as "one's go-to
sentence-ender". Some go to 「よ」, some to 「ね」, some to 「さ」, etc. What type are
you?

Here is an extremely famous children's song for you. Lyrics by a さ-type
person.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T3CkQWaKI>

