Re: infix
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 29, 2001, 17:13 |
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At 3/29/01 10:45 AM +0300, you wrote:
>On 29 March, Marcus Smith wrote:
>
> >John Cowan wrote:
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> >
> >>Which is why "immaterial" becomes "imma-bloody-material", which a
> >>copy of "-ma-".
> >
> >That's attested?! I would have ranked that as about as good as
> >"ab-fucking-solutely".
>
>I also doubt that "ab-fucking-solutely" is likely to be said
That was my point. It sounds attrocious to me, as does the
"imma-bloody-material" example.
>--- but, IMHO,
>it's because this would break up the stressed-unstressed-stressed-unstressed
>pattern of the word "absolutely". I can't cite any
>printed source, but I _have_ heard "abso-fucking-lutely",
I've heard it and used it -- much to my students suprise. (I was teaching
about infixation when I used it)
> (which
>preserves the stress pattern).
>
>Dan Sulani
>
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>likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a.
>
>A word is an awesome thing.
Marcus Smith
"Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing."
-- Thomas Huxley
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