> Tim,
>
> you wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I spelled out my one-to-one relationship yesterday, mapping most expletives
> unto "I've done something wrong" (e.g. damn
Also expresses dislike "damn trolls"
> , sh*t
Can mean something worthless i.e. "you piece of ****"
> , crap
See above
> , etc.), and the
> remaining few unto "that's great!" (e.g. my personal favorite, hot-damn),
> what more could you want for an isomorphism?
>
> > See attached--but be warned it contains much
> > much potty-mouth language!
>
> You probably know this by now, but there was no attachment.
>
> ERiC
>