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

[Benjamin Barrett]

> On 14 Feb 2016, at 15:31, Scott <harview at MONTANA.COM> wrote:
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Scott <harview at MONTANA.COM>
> Subject:      Re: "Looking to showcase women who do shit!"
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> 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
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> 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

Good examples. How about “She never gets her shit done”? I think there are a bunch of permutations that make this difficult to track. BB
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