I guaran-god-damn-tee it

[Wilson Gray]

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.

Well, Mother always told me that I was "right simple."

-Wilson

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: I guaran-god-damn-tee it
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> At 5:14 PM -0400 6/27/10, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >Since only God damns, no emphasis on _God_ is required, in any case.
>
> 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
>
> >Well, Catholically speaking, the Pope can damn. But only because God
> >has gone out of His way to *let* Popes do that, in His stead. ;-)
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
> >On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >>  Jon: 'Some may also enjoy _irregoddamnless_.'
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> >>  Randy: 'Shouldn't that be "irre-goddamn-gardless"?'
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> >  > Jon: 'Should be but ain't.'
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