Engineering amazing

[Jonathan Lighter]

JT's song is called "SexyBack." The CNN people were unmistakably
pronouncing it as two words ("get your *sexy* back"), and they made it
clear that "your sexy" was something you used to have before you made a hog
of yourself.


JL


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > CNN said yesterday that you might want to "get your sexy back" by losing
> > ten pounds "in time for summer."
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> > Then some tanned, young, trim guy with surfer hair appeared to tell you
> in
> > detail how to "get your sexy back."
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> Perhaps you missed the memo, Jon. Justin Timberlake was "bringing sexy
> back" in
> 2006.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexyback
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> --bgz
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