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http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2017/puzzle/great_tits.html
ALL OF THEM
I read most of this in Annalise Keating's voice.
Can't ever stop the geek.
The other day I read that modern psychology has moved to basing our personalities on a transient sense of self that is constantly shifting. I've never believed this more than when I looked through my closet this morning and realized that I owned not one, but three entire pairs of jersey athleisure pants that I actually wore outside the house in non-athletic situations last year.
This essay presents an interesting, albeit vulgar, point: while the word "fuck" can be used as a noun or a verb in a typical sense, it also has a meaning that does not seem to fit any standard part of speech functionally -- the most obvious of these being the phrase or sentence "fuck you", of course.
Analysis:
Instead, "fuck you" functions more like an indicative sentence -- it describes (in no uncertain terms) the speaker's attitude toward the listener. "Fuck [noun]" works the same way for basically any noun or noun phrase. In this usage, it is functionally analogous to such statements as (to use the examples given in that essay): I'd disagree with sentence #(46), because that sentence would be more generally used to order someone to either literally poop on Lyndon Johnson or metaphorically do so by saying bad things about him, rather than to indicate the speaker's opinion of Lyndon Johnson. But for the others, they clearly are statements of the speaker's opinion. Other such sentences include "Three cheers for Jerry!".
It can be argued that at least some of these either aren't complete sentences or have omitted verbs implied. Generally speaking this involves the assumption of a subjunctive verb form indicating a wish -- or in other words, something perfectly fit for expressing an opinion. For example:
"May there be three cheers for Jerry!"
"Let us give three cheers for Jerry!"
In this second example, English grammar is technically using an imperative, but the construction expresses a wish, in a way that would be represented by the subjunctive verb mood in some other languages (e.g. Latin).
A related sentence type is "Thanks be to God". Here, a "may" is clearly implied, and thus subjunctive.
However, this is closely related to yet another example of an expression of opinion (through expressing the desire to thank) that seems to lack a verb. Expressions of appreciation, such as "thank you", "thank you very much", or "thanks, ants", have basically the exact same grammatical construction as "fuck you", and for that matter, "damn you".
"Thank" is similarly generally considered a verb, as the sentence could be interpreted as "I would like to thank you" (and often is expanded to this in formal, wordier contexts). "Thanks" by itself or with a vocative noun could similarly be implied to "I would like to give thanks to you".
Such an interpretation could be used for a "mangled oath" version of "fuck you" that's common to family-friendly media, that being "curse you" -- it can be seen as "I would like to curse you". Similarly, "damn you" is "I would like to damn you", and if we assume that "damn" is a shortened form of "condemn" in specific purposes, "damn you" is "I would like to condemn you".
The only difference with "fuck you", in this interpretation, is merely that "I would like to fuck you" instead gets hijacked by the regular verb meaning, and no longer carries the meaning analogous to "fuck you" because the regular verb meaning of "fuck" EITHER lost its meaning of expressing negativity OR the expression of negativity was tacked on to a word that otherwise means "to have sex with" (and additionally implies a disrespectful copulation). (My guess is the latter.) Incidentally, if we substitute "disrespect" for "fuck", "I would like to disrespect you" carries a similar meaning, clearly capturing the angle of intent that "fuck you" implies, albeit not capturing the emotional intensity of opinion.
And what part of speech do "disrespect" and "damn"/"condemn" and "curse" occupy in such a sentence? Specifically, they are the infinitive forms of a verb, either used with a modal verb ("may") or as a verb phrase formed by an infinitive (e.g. "I would like to open the door", where "to open the door" is what you would like).
So it may be the case that "fuck you", and similar sentences, are usage examples of a handful of words that have abbreviated (and generally colloquial) sentence structure constructions, these words being "fuck", "thank", "damn", "curse", and maybe a few others I'm forgetting.
In this case, the only thing that "fuck" is really missing is a proper expanded construction that involves itself.
"Fuck" has two dimensions -- one is the intention to disrespect, and the other is a strong emotional intensity of opinion. Disrespect was mentioned earlier, but for something with a similar emotional intensity, there's "hate" -- except "hate" is not a word that has one of these abbreviated constructions, for whatever reason. This may be because "hate" is pretty much singularly used for opinion expression, while "fuck" probably got its meaning of expressing negativity by analogy with using sex (and sexual assault, presumably, given the word's general usage) as an expression of social dominance, and thus "hate" is an expression of one's own opinion (and stays more politely on one's side of a social conflict) and "disrespect" is mechanical and lacks the emotional punch, while "fuck" implies both a strongly negative opinion and an involuntary imposition of that opinion on someone else and thus is seen as highly offensive, beyond solely hating someone or detachedly aiming to disrespect them.
IN CONCLUSION: "fuck you" is probably an abbreviated subjunctive-like expression formed irregularly from the secondary meaning of a verb.
Anyhows, I tend to have the opposite feeling, that I remember something I said ages ago as assholish or dumb but if I come across it again I find it more agreeable than I remembered.
Speaking of; I haven't felt like buying a figure in forever, and my insane Japanese Blu-ray habit has trickled to literally just the four Infini-T Force BDs (and the last one is out in a few days). I feel like a failure of the Ota cabbal.
Conversely, my spending on clothing has um... skyrocketed? It's really really bad, considering you have to save for the future and stuff. I'm only really considering this how because spending on clothes is frivolous, whilst spending on Ota stuff was somehow not?
Books are nice, though
Except Imi and Glenn AFAIK.
When i spend money on Ota stuff, I tend to feel that I'm really supporting the creators work, and considering it's such an important part of my life I can justify just about anything.
When it's clothing, it's just... I'll have this specific look in mind, it's almost always 'How much Day-Glo is appropriate for semi-formal' or 'What is Nautica up to right now' but it feels good to like... complete the Coord. Which is basically like playing Aikatsu! or PriPara but in real life.
To be honest I avoid hardcover editions of literally every book. I just think paperbacks look and feel nicer.
I genuinely thought it couldn't hurt men at all, but it turns out it can get really really bad if you don't have it done.
Not that I've been using much, I've been watching over another relative's home for a while now. It's comfy, though.
Basically the recipe is to fry some onions, red peppers, jalapeno, pineapple and chopped pork and let it stew for an hour or two. Came out fine this way for me, although the pineapple doesn't really seem to add that much (taste or anything else). So, since it costs a bit and I don't have much use for it otherwise, I guess I won't cook this dish again for a while.
But it sounds like it would be really fun as a game.