Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Wilson Gray]

Obviously not aimed at the woman of color. Cf. the paean to "back" by
Sir Mix-A-Lot. I love the verse:

Even *white* boys got to shout
"Baby got back!"

Back in the day, there was an R&B song, "Tempting," by The Moonglows
that had the verse:

I love you, baby
'Cause you stacked way _back_

Might be ancestral. Youkneverknow.

-Wilson
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Similar to the title of the weight-loss dance show on Oxygen, _Dance Your A** Off_.
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> Margaret Lee
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> --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> In one neat package:
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> http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/20/my-dad-said-ptc/
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> I just saw a promo on CBS, and indeed the pronunciation is the familiar
> electronic sound. IPA symbol?
> The oddest development since "Cholmondelay" went "Chumley."
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> Much more here, including Cap'n Kirk's sociolinguistic brain-teaser:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says
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> JL
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-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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