came across a paper titled “a universal pronoun in english?” by a student of linguistics at stanford.
and the pronoun? your ass.
to quote him: “We refer to these expressions collectively as your ass. Your ass is not simply a possessive
pronoun + NP (PossNP) construction since, primarily, it is semantically non-compositional…”
one of the examples he gives: “…my ass handed the old chick her ten fuckin’ bucks…” explained as “…the speaker presumably handed the ten dollars to the woman with his hands (not his buttocks).”
read the entire thing here. it’s a downloadable pdf.
and drop by the author’s page. andrew koontz-garboden now teaches linguistics at manchester.
you can bet your ass i aint reading all that crap. i have never seen so much verbal crap in my life.
Sammie x
How much pure bullshit can you come up with? This is just pure bullshit, wouldn’t go around and say my ass about everything or even mention *ass* in a whole sentence.
you guys are right…
no more assinine stuff here.