Re: infix

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:22:13PM -0800, 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".
Sounds odd to me too. I'd say "imma-*-terial," where * is whichever
two-syllable expletive I feel like using. But I can kind of understand
duplicating the <-ma->, since <material> is its own morpheme, whereas
*<terial> isn't. But anyway, I have heard multiple examples where the
expletive is inserted before a non-stressed syllable, so the rule apparently
isn't perfect.

And Nik said, earlier:
> The expletive takes the primary stress, but leaves the stress pattern
> otherwise unaffected:
> àbso-fúckin-lùtely
> ìnde-góddamn-pèndant
When I hear it, those usually sound like /%abs@%fVk@n"lutli/ (% before
secondary stress, " before primary).

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo