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c/humor · by NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · 15d

Fun with edu-fuckin-cation, am I doing it right? 😂

Fun with edu-fuckin-cation, am I doing it right? 😂

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ygor@floss.social · 13 pts · 15d (2 replies)

@NickEast_IndieWriter
And guess what? xkcd has a comic about this too
https://xkcd.com/1290/
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#xkcd

Yuvalne@433.world · 7 pts · 15d (1 reply)

@ygor @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
for anyone curious, the linguistic term for this is "expletive infix"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive/_infixation?wprov=sfla1
#language #linguistics

a14o@feddit.org · 2 pts · 15d

Fascinating

A more fundamental theory due to John McCarthy is based on prosody.[2] Its basic principle is that "the metrical stress tree of the host is minimally restructured to accommodate the stress tree of the infix". For example, although unbelievable and irresponsible have identical stress patterns and the first syllable of each is a separate morpheme, the preferred insertion points are different: un-fuckin'-believable, but irre-fuckin'-sponsible.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 15d (2 replies)

Is everyone including all of the @‘s in every comment as a joke, or is this some sort of bot thing?

Hupf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 15d (1 reply)

I guess it's Mastodon functioning a bit different from Lemmy even though they're federated.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 15d

Ah I get it. TIL, thanks!

GramrgednAngel@beige.party · 2 pts · 15d (7 replies)
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MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz · 2 pts · 15d (5 replies)

@GramrgednAngel @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I don't know what planet those editors live on then, because I've literally never heard a single person in my entire life say "unbefuckinglievable"".

Yuvalne@433.world · 1 pts · 15d (4 replies)

@MiaMarkTwo @GramrgednAngel @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop judging by this thread it seems to be a matter of debate, as there's the stressed syllable factor and the clearly delineated morpheme factor pulling in opposite directions.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gins/117116464629049462

GramrgednAngel@beige.party · 1 pts · 15d (2 replies)
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MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz · 1 pts · 15d (1 reply)

@GramrgednAngel @Yuvalne @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop So unimportant you had to have an entire editorial discussion about it? 🙄

GramrgednAngel@beige.party · 1 pts · 15d
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MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz · 1 pts · 15d

@Yuvalne @GramrgednAngel @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Nope. It's a clear case of rules (incorrectly) trumping style, in an "up with this I will not put" way.

Nonsense.

nxskok@cupoftea.social · 1 pts · 15d

@GramrgednAngel or it's the latter, because it's "bleevable" with the first syllable stressed.

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Darkard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Phil fuckin adelph fuckin ia

linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io · 1 pts · 12d

@Darkard @NickEast_IndieWriter oh damn, that's painful to look at. It's Phila-fuckin-delphy-fuckin-A.

Or Philly Fuckin' Philly if you want to sound halfway local, especially if you're at an Iggles game.

jmht@theatl.social · 2 pts · 15d

@NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop Indeed it does. But is it really that 'fuckin' can only be inserted before a stressed syllable? Or that any syllable *following* 'fuckin' becomes stressed?

As fuckin' fantastic is just as valid as fan-fuckin'-tastic ... 🤔😋

Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 15d (2 replies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive_infixation

If you are curious about how insertions for emphasis work in detail. There are way more than just fuck, too.

elvissays@social.vivaldi.net · -1 pts · 15d (1 reply)

@Gladaed @NickEast_IndieWriter Who the fuck put that bastardin fuckwit in charge 🙊

Gladaed@feddit.org · 1 pts · 15d

Great example for an expletive, but un-fucking-believably not an invective one.

Also this is an example where the following syllable isn't emphasized as taken from the wiki

Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz · 1 pts · 12d

@NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop The things you learn at UCL fuckin A!

mndflayr@metalhead.club · 1 pts · 15d

@NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

This is gre-fuckin-at!