Re: infix
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 26, 2001, 20:07 |
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> Just curious after having watched Snatch (I had to...one of my fav films
> thus far was Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels), are the constructions
>
> absofuckinglutely
>
> and
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> confuckingfounded
>
> examples of infixing?
Yup. The only infix in English (except for -bloody- in British English).
Absolfuckinglutely is the classic example.
One of my office mates was a linguist (yeah, I'm just a lowly literature
person) and he showed me an article analyzing -fucking- as an infix. I
wish I could remember the author.
--Pat
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