Turbo-Cojones

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 3/18/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> A few years back a friend of mine sent me a store-bought thank-you card that
> showed a cartoon of green stuff growing out of male buttocks.
>
>   The sentiment was
>
>                                     Muchas Grassy Ass !
>
>   (Or maybe it was "Much Ass Grassy Ass !")

Jane Hill discussed a similar thank-you card in her paper, "Mock
Spanish: The Indexical Reproduction Of Racism In American English,"
archived here:

http://web.archive.org/www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/hill-jane/

Images of the card are also archived:

http://web.archive.org/www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/hill-jane/i/18.gif
http://web.archive.org/www.language-culture.org/colloquia/symposia/hill-jane/i/19.gif


--Ben Zimmer

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