"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably,"said Michael Adams, author of "Slang: The People's Poetry" and anassociate professor of English at Indiana University.

《俚语：人们的诗文》一书的作者、印地安那大学英语副教授迈克尔·亚当斯说：“我并没有感到惊讶，因为‘whatever’可能属于一类比较特殊的词。

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While he served in Senate, Adams took the lecture in University Hall to begin his part time job as Harvard's first Boylston Professor of rhetoric and oratory.

亚当斯在当参议员期间，还成为哈佛学院的第一个讲修辞和演讲术的博伊尔斯顿教授，在哈佛学院的大学堂里兼职授课。

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"We should be able to designate one or two centres to concentrate on this work and other centres can provide them with DNA so we can look at greater numbers of people, " Professor Adams told BBC News Online.

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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

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