[Ads-l] "Looking to showcase women who do shit!"

Benjamin Barrett mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM
Sun Feb 14 19:47:36 UTC 2016


> On 14 Feb 2016, at 11:05, Scott <harview at MONTANA.COM> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:36:34PM -0500, Wilson Gray wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> To do stuff? To get things done?
>>> 
>>> In other words, do means do, not doodoo.
>>> 
>> 
>> Exactly!
>> 
> 
> Here in Montana I'm more familiar with "Doesn't do shit", meaning
> someone hasn't done their job. The positive doesn't exist as far as I
> know.
> 
> Scott Swanson

How about if you change the intonation pattern? E.g., “She does (a lot of) shit/She gets her shit done.” BB
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