F**king-A

Mark A Mandel mam at THEWORLD.COM
Fri Jan 17 00:59:28 UTC 2003


On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

#Thinking about it a little more, I remember that the FULL phrase was "You
#fuck an A John!" meaning 'totally right, I agree."

I assume that you are remembering from hearing, not reading, the
expression. Could that have been "You fuckin' A, John!"? That is,
 - "fuckin'" rather than the homophonous "fuck an"
 - copula deletion from, or as in, AAVE
        ?

-- Mark A. Mandel



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