pejoration of "stuff?"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri May 25 23:42:33 UTC 2007


At 6:11 PM -0400 5/25/07, James Harbeck wrote:
>Let's not forget George Carlin's bit about stuff...
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8896213084482448693
>
With that nice aperçu about other people's stuff vis-à-vis one's own:
"Have you ever noticed that their stuff is shit, but your shit is stuff?"

LH

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