I guaran-god-damn-tee it

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:19 AM +0100 6/28/10, Robin Hamilton wrote:
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>>Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>>Subject:      Re: I guaran-god-damn-tee it
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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

Wow.  Wonderful thing, this internet. (I have my original copy, such
as it is--one of the worst binding jobs in the annals of linguistic
publications.)

LH

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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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