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

On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 06:21  AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:36:37PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>> Actually, infix fucatives have to come just before the primary stress.
>
> "Infix fucatives".  Heh.  That's a new one for me.  (My favorite term
> for the phenomenon is "infuckingsertion".)
>
>> ("Imma-bloody-material", recorded from Australia, is an exception.)
>
> Only because of the repeated -ma-, though; imma-bloody-terial would
> fit the rule nicely.  So the fucative is in the right place; it just
> got something extra appended to it.
>
> Is there a special term for the spooneristic reversal of such for
> euphemistic purposes, as in "unbeluckingfievable!"
>
> -Mark
Actually, speaking of that infixation, i feel like i've only ever heard
"un-fucking-believable", and not "unbe-fucking-lievable".  And it was
probably on tv or in a movie.


-Stephen (Steg)
  "eze-gair seflaz, i eze-fiizhag sha'charzat-a"