BE "Your ass!" = WE "Up yours!" < "[Fxck you] Up your ass!"?

[Victor Steinbok]

A hand note: I think, you just made the case that "Your ass!" and "Up
yours!" are not equivalent and don't have the same origin. Of course, BE
"Your ass!" may be different from the usage *I* am familiar with.
Perhaps a parallel that does connect them would be "Your mama!", or,
more accurately, "Jo mama!"

VS-)

On 2/13/2011 2:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> A foot note from an interesting paper by Larry:
>
> "1
> I ignore here the related intransitive construction illustrated in I
> lay me down to sleep, Ø Sit you
> down, or Ø Hie thee hence ..."
>
> FWIW:
>
> I lay mine arse down to sleep
>
> Sit your ass down! (Surely, everyone is familiar with this one,
> anymore<har! har!>)
>
> Hie thine arse hence
>
> --
> -Wilson

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