Bad Taste Breakthrough! PLUS New Phoneme! (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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So if Rowan and Martin had said, "You bet your sweet bip" then it would
be okay for William Shatner to talk S#*!.  As it is, Shatner is a
trailblazer and edgy.

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> "Bippy" has too many sounds to be a phoneme. It's a lexeme, and
they've
> always been a dime a dozen.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
> Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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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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> > As did "bippy" -- "you bet your sweet bippy", from Laugh-In, late
> 1960s.
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> > > A very bizarre one, but a phoneme nonetheless.
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