Re: infix
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 29, 2001, 7:51 |
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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-".
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>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 --- 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", (which
preserves the stress pattern).
Dan Sulani
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