guy = 'thing'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Perhaps "mofo" also suits.

JL


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I will use "dude" in such contexts.
>
> (Query: Is "will + V" a formal, emphatic British way of saying "habitually
> + V"? Or am I seriously losing it? In case I'm not and it is, the tense
> intended here implies simple futurity - with just a touch of resolve.)
>
> JL
>
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> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
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>> > Common for a long time in ref. to material objects.
>>
>>
>> It was hip in the MIT linguistics dept. in the late '70's, even in
>> reference to abstract objects, like the parts of speech: "it's clearly the
>> case that this guy is ungrammatical in the relevant environment." WTF?!
>> :-(
>> It annoyed the hell out of me, especially when the foreign - uh, I mean
>> *international* - students picked it up. There wasn't anything that I
>> could
>> do about it, of course, voice crying in the desert and all that.
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