Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Margaret Lee]

Similar to the title of the weight-loss dance show on Oxygen, _Dance Your A** Off_.
 
Margaret Lee

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--- On Wed, 7/21/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:


From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 7:32 PM


In one neat package:

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/20/my-dad-said-ptc/

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."

Much more here, including Cap'n Kirk's sociolinguistic brain-teaser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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