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Old Fri Nov 07, 2008, 01:12am
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Originally Posted by DG View Post
Yep. The number of adult males who have never heard F--- would be extremely small. The number of adult males playing baseball who have never heard F--- would be microscopic in number.
Not to mention (and to be overly analytical,) the umpire in this story used the word in its gerund form as an adjective. It wouldn't be intuitive to convert the adjectival form to an infinitive used as an epithet.
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