Fun with edu-fuckin-cation, am I doing it right? 😂 @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #Rules#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Linguistics #Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon

@NickEast_IndieWriterAnd guess what? xkcd has a comic about this tooxkcd.com/1290/@linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop #xkcd

Phil fuckin adelph fuckin ia

@ygor @NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop for anyone curious, the linguistic term for this is "expletive infix"en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletiv#language #linguistics

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.

@NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiopThis is gre-fuckin-at!

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.

@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 ... 🤔😋

@GramrgednAngel or it's the latter, because it's "bleevable" with the first syllable stressed.@NickEast_IndieWriter @linguistics @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

@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"".

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

@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.mastodon.gamedev.place/@gins/1

@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.

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

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

Ah I get it. TIL, thanks!

@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.

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