A Facebook friend noting a pet peeve (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Benjamin Torbert]

http://xkcd.com/37/


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > More like  "ass butt" than "big-ass butt." But "butt butt" is less
> > confusing for today's reader/listener.
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> > Cf.:
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> > 1. "If you screw up, it'll be your figurative butt!"
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> > 2. "Stop sitting on your butt butt!"
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> > JL
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> Or "Get your figurative butt in gear" vs. "Get your butt butt looked at by
> the proctologist".
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> LH
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> > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
> > william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:
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> >>> PS: I analyze "badunkadunk butt" to mean a "butt butt." You know, as
> >>> distinguished from a "gun butt." "pork butt," "archery butt," etc.
> >>> Wise writers are careful to specify by doubling just which sense of a
> >>> potentially ambiguous noun they mean to convey.
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> >>> JL
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> >> So it means "big-ass butt"?
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