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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 2:47 PM, Benjamin Barrett <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
>> 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

Actually, contra my previous message, in this context "know shit" can be positive too:  "She knows a lot of shit".  And maybe just de-stressing "shit" can accomplish this:

She knows SHIT.   [= 'she knows nothing', ignoring the literal interpretation on which she's a merdologist]
She KNOWS shit. [= 'she knows stuff']

LH

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