Re: USAGE : English past tense and participle in -et
| From: | Garth Wallace <gwalla@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 29, 2003, 1:06 |
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Paul Bennett wrote:
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> ISTR once having a conversation (maybe in Conlang) to the effect
> that infixed expletives could only be inserted directly before stressed
> syllables in Standard English.
Either before stressed syllables, or between a prefix and root
("un-fucking-believable"). I think the insertion before the stressed
syllable may be a case of false analysis: e.g. analysing "absolutely" as
"abso-" + "lutely" and therefore producing "abso-fucking-lutely".
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