Worthy of Ejection?

[Matt]

Originally Posted by DG

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.

[griff901c]

Originally Posted by Matt

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.

Huh?..... Makes my f$%#)*G head hurt........



griff

[SethPDX]

He means the player heard the word "blanking" and figured out he could turn it into a verb and say, "blank you!"

I never got too much into that grammar $h1+

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by SethPDX

He means the player heard the word "blanking" and figured out he could turn it into a verb and say, "blank you!"

I never got too much into that grammar $h1+

Blank you very much for the explanation!