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From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Infix?
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 10:36:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 10:36:09 1985
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> >
> > The addition of a middle word, even in the middle of a word, to add
> > emphasis is quite common in English and many other languages.  The
> > phrase that pops to mind is "big f-cking deal", and most of us (at
> > least most of me :->) have heard someone say something like
> > "out-f-cking-rageous!".
> > 		Ken Arnold
>   As opposed to being "quite common", I can't think of any other
> word besides "fucking" that is inserted into another word (infix?).
> You can attempt to shoehorn a different word in the same manner,
> but it doesn't sound right.  Assuming that "out-fucking-rageous"
> sounds right....
> Bob Devine

	A woman in the linguistics program I was in  did a squib on 
"fucking." I never read it, but from talking to her about the paper 
I got the idea that she believed that the ability of "fucking" to
go most anywere in a sentence was unusual and unique to the word.

	Fan-fucking-tastic.
	Fucking fantastic.
	Fantastic fucking (different meaning, notice?)

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