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April 18, 1999
mark thomas I noticed this morning that I pronounce "FUCK" like it starts with a "P." PFUCK. And lately I'm pronouncing "SHIT" like it starts with a "T." TSHIT. I think this is, in fact, how those F and S consonants are supposed to be pronountced (tsic). They are not pure sounds, like E. Take the letter I; it is really a combination of AH and E. AH-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. So if you look at this from the perspective of the cunning linguist, words like CUNT and PECKER are purely consonential foulness (aside from the embedded AITCH in the middle of PECKER). Say it out loud. Feel the AITCH in PECKER. In high school I had a friend who mastered Gibberish in Polish and Japanese. I spent hours with him at Wag's in Brandon, Florida, waking up the next day sore from laughter at the way he carried on in linguistically correct and important-sounding but meaningless cacophonies of randomly enjoined phonemes from the language of the moment. I was just sitting here laughing and thinking about that guy. Good night.
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