pop perceptual linguistic insights (?)

Mon Sep 12 18:23:39 UTC 2011

"Zits" is probably worth reading regularly for such stuff.

Joel

At 9/12/2011 10:25 AM, David Barnhart wrote:
>"Zits" by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman this morning:
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>Jeremy's girl friend says to him as he is snacking: "Gross-uh Stop i-tuh"
>and as she walks away in disgust "You can be such a chil-duh."
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>Jeremy says to his pal: "The super-accented ending consonant is the new
>exclamation point."
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>His pal says: "Coo-luh."
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