I guaran-god-damn-tee it

[Robin Hamilton]

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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> Sadly, back in the '70's, I loaned my copy to a "friend," who promised to
> have it hard-bound as a token of appreciation.

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Robin

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>> Wilson, of all posters, should recall the argument from Quang Phuc
>> Dong (of the South Hanoi Institute of Technology) in his paper
>> "English Sentences Without Overt Grammatical Subject" [with due
>> credit to his alter ego James D. McCawley] back in the 60s that "God"
>> is not the subject of this verb, as evidenced by the contrast between
>>
>> Goddamn God!
>> *Goddamn Himself!
>>
>> LH

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