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

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Monday, December 29, 2003, 1:06
Paul Bennett wrote:
> > 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". -- Nightstar IRC: More fun than a box of ferrets! <http://www.nightstar.net/> With your IRC client: <irc://irc.nightstar.net/> With Java IRC client: <http://www.nightstar.net/chat.php>