Re: CHAT: autological linguistics terms; faux amis

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 12:37:45PM -0800, SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
> Poster:       "SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY" <smithma@...>
> Subject:      Re: CHAT: autological linguistics terms; faux amis
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, dirk elzinga wrote:
>
> > I used to have a list of these somewhere, but the only one I can
> > remember off hand is 'vowol hormony'.
> >
> > Here are some I just made up: rereduplication (or reduduplication),
> > inexpletivefixation, methatesis, gemminnation, syncpe.
Actually, I read once that in English, expletives are only infixed before an
accented syllable; now, that seems to ring true, *almost*. It sounds awkward
to me to say or hear it infixed before an unstressed syllable, but I have
heard others do so, on occasion. I just wonder if the rule's changing, or if
it never solidified compeletely, or some other explanation for the
near-but-not-quite-universality of infixation only before stressed
syllables.

--
Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo