Obscenities

Eric Nielsen ericbarnak at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 1 18:08:50 UTC 2010


Sorry for reiterating. Guess I better read all the posts.

Eric

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 1, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
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> > A fun site to visit:
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> > http://xkcd.com/798/
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> ah, Geoff Pullum already caught that one:
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> GP, 9/27/10: Obscene intensificatory adverb frequencies:
>  http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2663
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