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> 最近のお気に入りケーキ 毎日食べてたい

Is 食べてたい just a typo, or is it a short form of something, like 食べておきたい or
食べていただきたい?
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Is 食べてたい correct?
As noted in [the comment by strawberry
jam](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/32856/is-%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%B9%E3%81%A6%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84-correct#comment-66173),
this is most likely a contraction of 食べていたい _"want to be eating"_ , the
desiderative (wanting) form of 食べている _"to be eating"_. In informal speech, it
isn't uncommon for the い in various -ている forms to be contracted out: 行ってます,
話してた, 読んでる, etc.

The contracted form of -ておく is -とく, where the て + お becomes と. Conjugated
variations include 積んどいて, 置いといた, 片付けときます, etc. The IME on my Mac recognizes
these -ている and -ておく contractions, and I think I remember that the IME under
Windows does too.

I'm not aware of any contracted forms for -ていただく (though I suspect such forms
probably exist, perhaps in dialect).
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“食べてたい” is a colloquial and contracted form of - ”食べていたい - I want to keep
eating.”

Likewise, “寝てたい – I want to stay in bed,” “起きてたい ‐ I want to stay up (all
night),” and “(一晩中)喋ってたい - I want to keep chatting (all night)” are used in
place of “寝ていたい,” “起きていたい,” and “喋っていたい.”

“…てたい” is colloquially spoken by both young and older people today, but to me
it sounds like a childish turn of phrase. I don’t recommend you use this
expression in the written form or in formal occasions.
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