Re: Redundancy in language

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:37:55PM +0800, Andrew Lindhjem wrote:
> Dear justfuckinggoogleit,
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to prepare the splash page. I would
> like to point out to you that the use of the word 'fucking'
> provides no linguistic assistance as it is a redundant term. 

It's used for emphasis, actually.  An emphatic adverb.  This is one
of the uses mentioned in the wav file you sent.

-Robin

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