re: the last bit of your post *Bono alert*
I think you're totally right.
I know someone who was interviewed back when the FFC was trying to decide whether Bono was describing a sexual act when he said "really, really fucking brilliant" at the 2003 Golden Globe awards.
I think he makes a pretty good case that "fucking" as an intensifier isn't referring to sex stuff.
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=801
I think you could probably show the same thing with a number of insults, but not all of them.
(
the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Wed 17 Sep 2014, 0:28,
Share,
Reply)