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

Scott harview at MONTANA.COM
Sun Feb 14 23:31:35 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:47:36AM -0800, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> How about if you change the intonation pattern? E.g., “She does (a lot of) shit/She gets her shit done.” BB

Interesting. I do hear "She gets her shit done."  Never "She doesn't
get her shit done" but only "She doesn't get shit done." (More likely
"doesn't do shit.") So a possessive makes shit positive! SS

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