[Ads-l] the uzhe

[Jonathan Lighter]

The subtitles read "uzhe," but that's subtitles for you.

JL

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:03 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Here’s Gretchen McCulloch on the “yoozh” (which I find a more transparent
> transcription).
>
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/linguistics-english-language-evolution-usual/672384/
> <
> https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/12/linguistics-english-language-evolution-usual/672384/
> >
>
>
> > On Oct 23, 2023, at 11:01 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS):
> >
> > "What brings you here?" "Oh, the uzhe."
> >
> > JL
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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