12-Mar-2005, 03:34
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 Re: Bad language
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Originally Posted by tdol To me, it would sound more natural to say 'Where's that f***ing J...?' if J is the person's name. 'The' would be used with a position, like 'the f***ing doctor'.
Here it is an intensifier, but some speakers seem to think that every sentence needs the word at least once, so it is often meaningless.  | Unless what he wanted to say was: Where is the f*** jacka..s? |