Talk:Expletive infixation
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it is an example of tmesis rather than infixation, since true infixes are bound morphemes.
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I'm glad this isn't a dictionary and I can just click on those words without having to spend all day looking for them in the dictionary. Nice confusing sentence ;p Morhange 23:05, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Can I put forward as an example the splendid "ri-suckmydick-ulous"? Citruswinter 19:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bad example
I have heard "unbe-fuckin-lievable" as often as "un-fuckin-believable". Who got the idea that "unbe-fuckin-lievable" is rare? It's a completely hopeless example.— Randall Bart 01:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Perhaps your experience is regional or due to some particular community in which you're involved. I have NEVER heard "unbe-fuckin'-lievable" until I read this article. However, I have hung out with a number of different rather "salty" crowds (from cab drivers and cops in Chicago, through construction workers and recovering alcoholics in L.A. and teenagers in the greater Portland, Oregon area, and on to the computer nerds and others in the San Fracisco Bay area --- even a little time in NYC, a region famed for its ubuiquitous use of expletives. I think I can legitimately claim to have broad experience with the usage. The fact that you've heard the former form anywhere near as often as the latter is, well, in-fuckin'-credible. JimD 19:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Randall, I too have NEVER heard the phrase "unbe-fuckin'-lievable." I don't doubt that you have heard it in common usage, but I have to agree with JimD that it is likely a regionally unique form. Because this page lists "*unbe-fuckin'-lievable" as ungrammatical for the purpose of exemplifying the role of morpheme-based tmesis in English phonotactics, and because you provide the only testimony for the grammaticality of "unbe-fuckin'-lievable," I am removing your assertion that "for many speakers, the simple phonological rule takes precedence." If others wish to provide testimony to the common existence of "unbe-fuckin'-lievable," I may be persuaded to change my position, but Randall Bart does not, in my opinion, constitute "many speakers." SPL Wolf 18:32, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm in full agreement with Randall here. "un-fucking-believable" seems completely wrong to me and I've never heard anyone say it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.254.152.8 (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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- I recently debated my phonology professor on the merits of the two, as I agree with Randall and only hear "unbefuckinglievable", in fact I could only say it as well, as "unfuckingbelievable" sounds too stupid. If this is a regional thing, I've spent my whole English-speaking life in Philadelphia and New York. JesseRafe (talk) 00:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
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- Yeah, I'm with the unbe-fucking-lievable crowd. I grew up in Boston, and have spent time in New York and Ohio. Maybe it's an East/West thing? AdjectiveAnimal (talk) 21:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
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- It is a bad example. I've heard unbe-fucking-lievable, never un-fucking-believable. Whether it's an east/west thing or what, a better example should be provided. 165.82.4.98 (talk) 19:01, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed "ricockulous" because "cock" is neither an adjective nor a participle, and it replaces "dic(k)" rather than inserts into the word. --Atemperman 01:10, 10 May 2007 (UTC) erg 3 3 # L34 g l
