Re: So as an emphatic
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:21:23 GMT
bppubjr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Padraic Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:27:39 +0100, António Marques <m.ap@xxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > "I am so, bisexual" = "I wasn't sure if you caught my meaning, so
> I
> > wanted to make explicit that it is bisexual I am and not something
> > else."
>
> Or perhaps, = "I am, indeed, whatever it is you claim I am not, you
> damned bisexual!" which is what I originally [momentarily] took the
> next version to mean:
>
> > "I am so! Bisexual!"
>
> I am not, bisexual!
I _think_ that in context, Jane had been accused of not being _two_
things, and she was protesting that she was indeed. One of them. (Which
episode and scene is it in?)
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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