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Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Sunday, December 28, 2003, 17:26
--- John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote:
> Costentin Cornomorus scripsit: > > > > I agree that by themselves they don't break > up > > > a word, but you don't > > > find "inde-big-fat-pendent", either. > > > > What's wrong with that? It fits your stress > > requirement. > > What's wrong with it is that "big fat" is not a > fucative.
Whatever else a fuckative may be, it's an emphatic infix. As far as I can tell from the few uses I've heard, you can stick just about anything in there. Padraic. ===== la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .

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