tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596483958734854362.post3822010706644595707..comments2023-10-28T06:10:26.247-07:00Comments on IS group: What the F***?Philip Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12964282820376429734noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596483958734854362.post-77046253523117574422007-10-03T11:11:00.000-07:002007-10-03T11:11:00.000-07:00You wanna be a rock superstar And live large...Nic...You wanna be a rock superstar <BR/>And live large...<BR/><BR/>Nice article, but I wish he'd credited the seminal (uh... huh huh huh) work of James McCawley (writing as Quang Phuc Dong) who wrote the definitive article on the syntax of "fuck", many years ago:<BR/><BR/> http://home.twcny.rr.com/lonniechu/QUANG.html<BR/><BR/>There is also a helpful audio lesson, now with flash animation:<BR/><BR/> http://www.nailmaster.ru/fuck.html<BR/><BR/>And let us not forget that -fuckin'- is also the only productive infix in English. McCarthy (1982) describes the constraints on its distribution:<BR/><BR/>http://www.jstor.org/view/00978507/ap020236/02a00030/0<BR/><BR/>Essentiallly, the infix has to come between an unstressed and a stressed syllable; hence:<BR/><BR/>(1) Abso-fuckin-lutely<BR/><BR/>(2) Fan-fuckin-tastic<BR/><BR/>(3) Galan-fuckin-tucci<BR/><BR/>(3) *Ab-fuckin-solutely<BR/><BR/>(4) *Saltzman-fuckin (ungrammatical as a variant on the name)<BR/><BR/>F*, I mean, *thank* you,<BR/>SimonSimon Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12390340462621255584noreply@blogger.com