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From: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Re: A whole nother story
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 14:55:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  4 14:55:05 1985
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Reply-To: benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter benson)
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Summary: 

John Allen from osu-eddie writes that what I called swooping
is properly infixation, as in un-fucking-believable.  I don't
want to get embroiled in a terminological dispute so I will
say that, for the most part, I agree.  Swooping is
a form of infixation.  I call it swooping because John
Grinder(1), another graduate student in linguistics with me in
the eary '70's called it that.  It seems on par with, but
certainly not equivalent to, the device whereby people make
clear a misheard word by repeating word with the misheard
syllable emphasized, e.g.,  "IM"migration not "EM"migration.
That is, swooping seems to operate on a word without regard
for its morphological analysis.  One could imagine, for
example, immi-fucking-gration, where I am assuming the root
analysis would be im-migr-ation. (Excuse me, Latin scholars,
for any gross errors).  Thus, the noncing of a whole nother
story is similar because  it too disregards the morphological
analysis of the word.  Perhaps, re-analyzes would also work
here.

So the distinction I was trying to make was between a process
that worked within the standard morphological analysis of a
word and one which either ignores that analysis or
re-analyzes.

--
(1) Yes, the same guy who brings you Neurolinguistic
Programming.
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