RE: I'm new to this forum...
June 8, 2014 at 2:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2014 at 2:31 am by Violet.)
(June 8, 2014 at 1:47 am)Cinjin Wrote: Agreed, but on a side note...
I never did understand the expression a metric shit ton.
After all a ton is an English unit of measure, so how does the term metric relate? Additionally, why "shit" ton? A ton is a ton is a ton - so why the expression 'shit ton' ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
For the same way it's a 'fuck ton'. Basically the same thing as a 'crap load'. Ultimately, it means there's much much in the muchness (or manyness), and an expletive is thrown in for purpose of exaggeration.
Quote:These are all rhetorical questions. No one need answer them. Just a curiosity to me.
Are you kidding? I haven't taught anybody something language related in... many many months. And that was even before I quit the field out of boredom.
(June 8, 2014 at 2:21 am)Sejanus Wrote: I'm not sure, I just like the way it sounds.
Your FACE likes the way it... now: that's just childish.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
