Re: infix

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Marcus Smith wrote:

>At 3/29/01 10:45 AM +0300, you wrote:
>>On 29 March, Marcus Smith wrote:
>>
>> >John Cowan wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>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.
Curiously, there is a radio spot currently playing where the f-word
is used as an infix (though not spoken as such). I don't know what
it's advertising, but the word used is unf***ingacceptable; spoken
as "un-something-acceptable".

Padraic.

>Marcus Smith