F*** with = have sex with?

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Tue Dec 13 04:19:34 UTC 2005


And so plays into the theme that "she's a gold digger". That makes the best
sense, thank you. Although I'd grown exhausted of hearing that song, I'll
now be able to listen to it about twice more to enjoy that sense.

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Benjamin Barrett
Baking the World a Better Place
www.hiroki.us
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society
> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph Nardoni
>
> I'm looking at the lyrics by Kanye West, and it seems to me
> that he's making a double entendre--fuck with meaning both
> having sex with and also messing around with usher--and the
> speaker of the lyrics feeling upset by that.
>
> Joe Nardoni
> Professor of English
> Middlesex Community College



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