The Veep with an f-bomb. Talking Points Memo posted this and it's already linked at Wonkette and elsewhere …
We can rip the audio and do some acoustic analysis if anybody cares, but I can't see this as ambiguous. Besides, I agree with Biden: This IS "a huge fuckin' deal".
Yeah, it's a barely language-related angle, but hey, it's an angle.
Gee, maybe Biden's not so bad after all.
ReplyDeleteI predict this phrase will now get a big bump in popularity.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine a better way to express what needed to be said right there.
ReplyDeleteArticle in Chicago Trib today. Some kids at U of C write graffiti in dead languages:
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Suuuuuuuuweet.
ReplyDeleteBut Wait - I wonder if the infix construction (if that's the right thing to call it -- help me, Mr. Verb) really qualifies as a "bomb."
ReplyDeleteI could imagine calling it a "bomb" if he had said something along the lines of" "Look at those f-ing Republicans now." But this little intensifier, in that position?
Oh, was it an infix? I heard it as "huge f-in' deal'.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, infixation is not the prototypical f-bomb, I agree.
Maybe Anonymous (not me, the other one) is not sure about what infixes are. That would be 'outfuckinrageous' or 'unfuckinbelievable.' I agree that it didn't sound like that's what Biden said.
ReplyDeleteNot an infix. But it is more an intensifier, which recently has had its offensiveness debated IIRC. A true F-bomb might be more of a "fuck you" or some other obviously angry/ deliberately rude use.
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