Re: infix
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 1:51 |
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Patrick Dunn wrote:
> Yup. The only infix in English (except for -bloody- in British English).
> Absolfuckinglutely is the classic example.
Not the only one. I've also heard "Inde-goddamn-pendant"
Hmm ... fuckin, goddamn, and bloody are all two syllables. English
tends to alternate stressed and unstressed syllables, like:
àbsolútely (grave for secondary stress, acute for primary stress)
ìndepéndant
The expletive takes the primary stress, but leaves the stress pattern
otherwise unaffected:
àbso-fúckin-lùtely
ìnde-góddamn-pèndant
Presumably, any two-syllable expletive could be infixed before the
stressed syllable.
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