Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 28, 2003, 17:58 |
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:26:45AM -0800, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
> 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.
Except you can't. The word "fucking" is the only universally-infixable
fucative, in fact. Most other emphatics are infixable only at the
phrase level rather than the word level, as in "the [holy/fucking]
fuck/hell/shit" (of course, "the fucking fuck" is generally eschewed as
redundant, but it's not grammatically invalid).
-Mark
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