I'm nearly certain that the dictionary definitions here come from the OS X version of the New Oxford American Dictionary. (The bad spacings in the cross-references give it away.)
And Charlie? He's so cool like!
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And maybe if the songwriters had actually read the definitions, they’d know that there’s no such thing as a sibilant bilabial plosive…
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Charlieissocoollike! You’ve become even more awesome that I knew you already were.
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Sorry, just listened to it again, and the line is “She’s got two sibilants, no bilabial plosives.” Online transcriptions of the lyrics have it wrong. Carry on…
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Even better than What’s Your English? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2cCZX106AE
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(Now Language Logged: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3091 )
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Loved it! You’ve probably seen this already, but this YouTube video of Stephen Fry discussing language is one of my absolute favorites: http://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY
@Persona, great video.
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