Dammit to hell
Lets say a native speaker trips and hurts his knee, would it be natural for him in that situation to exclaim: Dammit to hell!!!
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That sort of swearing is highly individual and regional. In my East-Coast US dialect, "**** it to ****" is something Sir Edmund Hillary might have said when he dropped his piton in the crevasse, but I have no doubt it is perfectly natural and current somewhere. There is nothing wrong with it.
- That sort of swearing is highly individual and regional.
- In my East-Coast US dialect, "**** it to ****" is something Sir Edmund Hillary might have said when he dropped his piton in the crevasse, but I have no doubt it is perfectly natural and current somewhere.
- There is nothing wrong with it.
- The altered spelling "dammit", commonly seen in writing when used alone, seems out of place in the complete imprecation with "to ****".
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That sort of swearing is highly individual and regional. In my East-Coast US dialect, "**** it to ****" is something Sir Edmund Hillary might have said when he dropped his piton in the crevasse, but I have no doubt it is perfectly natural and current somewhere. There is nothing wrong with it. The altered spelling "dammit", commonly seen in writing when used alone, seems out of place in the com
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