Re[8]: Expletives (was Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven)

At 3:06:58 PM on Saturday, November 29, 2003, Glen Gordon
wrote:

> Brian:
>>Was that intended to be 'in the present tense' *and* 'as a
>>noun'?

> Why yes it was :) As in "There's shat on my head." It's
> both a noun and it is in the present tense.

Erm. I can't help wondering what you'd say if, oh, Torsten
had spoken of 'nouns in the present tense'. Or Kalyan. <g>

>>Can't think of any better idea, though in my experience
>>that sense of <scat> is fairly rare.

> Really? It doesn't seem so to me, although the word seems
> to have acquired a special fetishistic connotation,
> implying a sexual titulation in some form or fashion from
> number two.

Yes, that's about the only context in which I've seen it at
all frequently.

Brian