Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!

[Jonathan Lighter]

Partly correct.  They merely listed a million synonyms under the entry
"monosyllable," a euphemism for the trisyllabic "vagina."  But they were all
synonyms for that, not any other monosyllables.

JL

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> I am reminded (somehow):  Didn't Farmer and Henley treat a wide range of
> "taboo" words (of whatever length) under the heading "monosyllable"?
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> --Charlie
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> Pronounced the same as _S#*!_ ?
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> No kidding, if people do start saying (*Beep!*) to euphemize certain
> monosyllables, it will have become a phoneme of English.
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> A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
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> And if not a phoneme, what?
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> JL
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> 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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> > --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme!
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> > Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 7:32 PM
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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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