Re: USAGE: The four shits in English
| From: | David G. Durand <david@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 17, 1999, 19:30 |
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At 7:06 AM -0400 10/14/99, Brad Coon wrote:
>Dogshit I have never heard but in my hated former home or Fort Wayne,
>Indiana, I occasionally heard batshit used as apeshit is indicated
>above.
I don't think I've ever heard the phrase "go batshit", but I have heard
batshit used as an adjective meaning crazy.
This is a wonderful series of idioms that I'd never brought out into
consciousness. Why is chicken excrement cowardly, and bat excrement insane,
and what _is_ a dipshit anyway? This kind of lexical-meaning complex is
what, as an artlanger, I often despair of having the time or creativity to
invent.
-- David
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