[Ads-l] Help with the f-word and parts of speech

[Mark Mandel]

Except "damned if I don't" can be traced back to "I'll be damned
*[figuratively,
not at all near the literal sense]* if I don't".

MAM

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:34 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Feb 25, 2020, at 11:29 AM, James Landau <
> 00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >  on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 04:19:45 Zone+0000 Bill Mullins <
> amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM> quoted:  <quote>
> > "On another note, fuck if I don't love the Pebble. ["The Pebble" is the
> website where these exchanges take place.]
> >  Now what is "fuck" in the above sentence? "
> > <end quote>  In that sentence wouldn't "fuck" be simply an interjection?
> - Jim Landau
> >
> It’s whatever “damn(ed)” is in “Damn(ed) if I don’t”.  I suppose
> “interjection" is indeed the relevant catch-all.  Or the olla podrida.
>
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