tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2892186821256938061..comments2024-03-28T19:45:08.560-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): "Absofuckinglutely" is an "infixation"Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-27212319978078401872018-06-01T18:22:08.930-05:002018-06-01T18:22:08.930-05:00I recall in my years of edumacation that I did pla...I recall in my years of edumacation that I did play the saxomaphone, but today is my first time ever knowing I had played such an instrument!<br /><br />While I was familiar with "edu-ma-cation," a friend used it in an email to me, and I read it with this pronunciation: "Ed-dum-ma-ca-shun!" The author's use of underline under the "ma" infix syllable allowed me to avoid the "dum" syllable.Ed Dummacationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07553741508575678569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-20122233843148665042011-10-13T13:49:22.284-05:002011-10-13T13:49:22.284-05:00I took a linguistics class in college (20 years ag...I took a linguistics class in college (20 years ago), and while I enjoyed it (being a word geek) I only remember two things clearly. The first was infixation, because our prof screwed up his example. He meant to say "unfuckingbelievable" but instead said "unbelievafuckingable" -- he said it twice. The other thing I remember was his explanation of aspirated consonants. For some reason (English wasn't his first language, but he was an excellent speaker, so he had to know) his example to show the difference between an initial aspiration and and ending non-aspirated consonant was "tit." He kept repeating it so we'd hear the difference. A smartass in class raised his hand and asked if that is true for "boob" too. The prof's expression never changed as he said "no, it isn't."BikerPuppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00693588253929969544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-22923338178657987882011-10-12T20:35:10.593-05:002011-10-12T20:35:10.593-05:00Infix notations are par for the course in symbolic...Infix notations are par for the course in symbolic logics. So far as I know, no one has proposed a "fucking" operator. I think such an operator would be monadic rather than connective. And an epistemic operator too. "Absolutely" might represent one epistemic state and "absofuckinglutely" would represent another.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-69664076979992129622011-10-11T17:45:01.340-05:002011-10-11T17:45:01.340-05:00When I was at school (many MANY years ago, we foun...When I was at school (many MANY years ago, we found, in the library, a Dictionary of American Slang.<br />There, on the first page, was "Absofuckinglutely" defined, if i remember, as "Yes. certainly"<br /><br />I seem also to remember "To F*ck through a keyhole" being in there - but absofuckinglutely certain I can't remember what it meant!.\\axxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785414672224688375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-55603916009256258802011-10-11T13:39:02.130-05:002011-10-11T13:39:02.130-05:00I made a little comic about this recently... http:...I made a little comic about this recently... http://tankhughes.com/?p=490TankHugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13867146543885264166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-59263487848984056902011-10-11T00:09:41.040-05:002011-10-11T00:09:41.040-05:00I minored in linguistics. There was a paper out at...I minored in linguistics. There was a paper out at the time by linguist titled "Fucking Insertion" that was about the grammatical structures if inserting the F word. For example, there must be equal number of syllables to sound right. Interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-24181847854703194942011-10-10T22:57:32.457-05:002011-10-10T22:57:32.457-05:00This brings "a whole nother" to mind for...This brings "a whole nother" to mind for me. It seems so common in conversation, but I only recently thought about what it meant.Michaelnoreply@blogger.com