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[Scott]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:16:22PM -0500, Laurence Horn wrote:
> Seems more like "get shit done" is positive ("shit" = 'stuff').  "do shit" can be positive (even in "women who do shit") or negative ("it bothers me that someone who did shit in the Senate for umpteen years is now spouting off"  = '...nothing...').  But as with other squatitives, "know shit" seems to be pretty strongly negative, with or without an overt negator:
> 
> He knows shit/squat/zilch/bupkis (about it).
> He doesn't know shit/squat/zilch/bupkis (about it). 
> 

Sounds like you've got your shit together!

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