>Robin wrote:
>>I don't think expletives are
>>isomorphic.
>
>They're just as isomorphic as any other word.
I don't think so. Expletives carry most of their meaning bound up in
inflection and context. They hardly have anything like a one-to-one
relationship to anything else.
See attached--but be warned it contains much much potty-mouth language!
-Prof. Tim
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