diamond@glivet.DEC (Dave Diamond) (06/17/85)
Re: Infix My professor for Intro to Linguistics taught us about the English expletive infix this way: Take two words that you wouldn't think to use the infix with: ALABAMA TATTAMAGOUCHIE (not sure what it means, but it serves for demonstration) Now add the expletive infix to each one. If you compare your result with your friends, you'll probably find that you insert the 'f' word in the same place. I end up with "Ala-f*ckin'-bama" and "Tattama-f*ckin'-gouchie"... I'm not sure why we do it this way (I haven't read the book mentioned in previous postings and my class was a survey level course). Dave Diamond Digital, Nashua NH (as well as a pre- senior linguistics major at the University of New Hampshire) ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-glivet!di ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-glivet!diamond