[Ads-l] badass, v.; "bitch" goes mainstream

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ellen Degeneres


She, as a native of East Texas, like unto this writer, has long used the
term, "bitches,'' on her TV show. Up here in the Poconos, The Ellen Show is
standard, doctor's-off waiting-room entertainment. Perhaps five years ago
or thereabouts, Ellen was demonstrating the use of Auto-Tune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune

to her audience, used an Auto-Tuned megaphone to say to that mainly-female
audience, "Hello, bitches!"

Cf. http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2012-March/117089.html

No one in her audience or in the waiting-room appeared to be in the least
perturbed by this or even surprised.

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-Wilson
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