Infixation
I’m a bit of a linguistics nerd. I think I like it because language is such a complex thing and everyone uses it so freely without really having an understanding of why they say what they do. Most people suck at it, too.
Anyway, I took an applied linguistics course in the spring and at one point we discussed affixes. You’re probably familiar with prefixes and suffixes, but there are other affixes as well. Some of them are not used in (modern) English, such as circumfixes. But what I enjoyed was the infix, which has just one use in English.
Am I going to tell you what it is? Abso-fucking-lutely.
“Fucking” is really the only word you just drop into the middle of another word. I guess “freakin” and “friggin” work as well, but only for those who choose to censor themselves. I don’t know why I find such pleasure in this. Maybe because my teacher had to drop an F-bomb in order to demostrate in class. Unavoidable expletives are the best kind.
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