I was watching the fourth episode today, in which there is a reasonably long scene towards the end that uses only the word fuck and its cognates (by cognates I include the oedipal pejorative and the mysterious fuckin' A). It is a fascinating, if slightly obvious, linguistic exercise
Sunday, 31 January 2010
Swearing in The Wire
I was watching the fourth episode today, in which there is a reasonably long scene towards the end that uses only the word fuck and its cognates (by cognates I include the oedipal pejorative and the mysterious fuckin' A). It is a fascinating, if slightly obvious, linguistic exercise
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I've always heard "fuckin' A" used to indicate approval of some kind, which would suggest that the 'A' stands for 'awesome' or 'amazing'. Or that it doesn't stand for anything and is just an A, as in 'A+' or 'A-1'.
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