Editing Talk:1290: Syllable Planning

I remember my father telling me when I was a teenager about a scholarly paper that described this exact topic, namely the rules governing where 'fucking' can be injected into multi-syllable words.  I still remember discussing the options for "fantastic" and "government".  Decades later I had a dream about words like "uninstallable" (which can either mean something that can be uninstalled or something that can't be uninstalled), and discovering that someone had written a paper about that very subject (http://www.hum.au.dk/engelsk/engsv/papers/vikn08b.pdf).  [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.127|199.27.128.127]] 06:00, 13 November 2013 (UTC) Toby Ovod-Everett
: Think you mean "... can be uninstalled or .... can't be installed". --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.51.227|173.245.51.227]] 06:42, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
Surely the question is which words benefit from the effing emphasis? Fan-effing-tastic is a natural, but with 'government' I wouldn't try...I'd just say 'effing government (what a bunch of wankers, bastards, mongrels, etc)'.[[User:Anff59|Anff59]] ([[User talk:Anff59|talk]]) 07:37, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


This immediately made me think about "Legen -wait for it- dary", one of the key phrases that 'Barney' uses in {{w|How I Met Your Mother}}. [[User:Kaa-ching|Kaa-ching]] ([[User talk:Kaa-ching|talk]]) 08:31, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


In case you want to go hunting for papers, it's actually got a name in linguistics: "fucking insertion". Not a good Google word unfortunately. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.30|108.162.231.30]] 08:42, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

:The correct linguistical term is {{w|tmesis}}. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.208|141.101.98.208]] 09:58, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
::Darnit.  Ninjaed. (With a note that this also includes phrasal infixings.)  [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.210|141.101.99.210]] 10:04, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

http://home.uchicago.edu/~vfriedm/Articles/020Friedman79.pdf  for some good insight on the differences between Russian and American swearing.  Including inserting fucking in between syllables.
--[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.183|199.27.128.183]] 08:59, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

I think the title text is referring to the word absolutely, which would mean he left only one syllable again. It just seems nonsensical to think that he was saying absolute and not absolutely. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.5|108.162.238.5]] 11:01, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
:Agreed, don't think anyone would ever make a tmesis out of the word 'absolute' as opposed to 'absolutely'.  I've changed the explanation accordingly.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.228|141.101.98.228]] 12:58, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

It's generally pointless to argue as to what a "standard" pronunciation is, but I question how flatly "unbelievable" is pronounced in the general American population, as opposed to the robotic-voiced-pronunciation-aid-audio-file population. Especially when pronounced heatedly, there tends to be distinct stress placed on either the first or the third syllable - a regional difference or subtle denotative difference, maybe. I think the existence of both un-fucking-believable and unbe-fucking-lievable is simply a matter of one following the "insert between prefix and root" rule and the other following the "insert before stressed (in this case third) syllable" rule, rather than being because 'unbelievable' is somehow an abnormally flattened word. --[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.58|173.245.54.58]] 16:40, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

So, is it time to lift the Incomplete tag? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.66|199.27.128.66]] 09:05, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

"This mistake, and realization of it, creates a humorous alternate meaning by saying "You absolute fucking shit!" - Uh, does it?  Think that might be over-reaching for an interpretation there...[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.228|141.101.98.228]] 13:34, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
:Wouldn't be explainxkcd without a few of those each comic. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.212.215|108.162.212.215]] 20:07, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

ri-fucking-'''''dick'''''ulous [[User:SuperSupermario24|<span style="color: #c21aff;">Just some random derp</span>]]

I wasn't aware that people had an issue with saying it as "ridicu-fucking-lous". I've been using that as my go to for years. Weird. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 03:05, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Ridicu-fucking-lotus! {{unsigned ip|162.158.255.160}}