Yes, finally, someone has dealt with Van Morrison's request to fans that they "Fucking shut the fuck up." The answer begins with this thorny issue: "The main syntactic problem is to determine whether the fuck is being used as an pleonastic (semantically empty) direct object of shut or as a pre-head modifier of the preposition phrase (PP) headed by up." OMG I KNOW.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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If that is less than 140 characters, it could break Twitter. Someone please try.
Into the Irish Mistic, again, it seems.
So I read the linked article (and got a headache from all the thinking), and could this be a helpful suggestion/question:
In this case, can't both uses of the word "fuck" be catagorized as unneeded intensifiers?
Also, STFU!