Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Jonathan Lighter]

Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?

No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.

A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.

And if not a phoneme, what?

JL

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
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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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