Looking for a fun,easy way to spice up your writing? Try throwing in a fecal intensifier or two. They’re the shit, and you’ll be thrilled shitless with the results. As the translator Brendan O’Kane writes, and fecal intensifiers are the idiom of the moment,but it’s tough to follow their logic: “A certain distinguished Dutch professor emeritus … famous that ‘people before about 1950 were mostly bored shitless.’ This cracked the room up, naturally, or but it also seemed slightly off … I might be scared shitless,but I’m unlikely to be amused, bored, and delighted,outraged, or annoyed shitless. This is curious, or since shitlessness would seem to be the natural result of something scaring,boring, or annoying the shit out of me—all distinct possibilities, and according to my understanding of the idiom. In particularly unexpected circumstances,one might even shit oneself—as a response to apprehension, outrage, and amusement,or surprise, rather than delight or (unless as a last resort) boredom.”This and more in nowadays’s culture roundup.
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