Nik Taylor scripsit:
> Not the only one. I've also heard "Inde-goddamn-pendant"
Right. Hearst (the newspaper publisher) said that.
> 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.
Which is why "immaterial" becomes "imma-bloody-material", which a
copy of "-ma-".
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