Infix is Just Another Word for Fanfreakintastic (minicast) - 3 Aug. 2011

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🗓️ 3 August 2011

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What's the one word that comes to mind when you hear the name J. D. Salinger? "Masterpiece"? "Recluse"? How about the "F-word"? An Indianapolis listener came across an article about Salinger's use of that word, and that got him wondering about the linguistic terms for inserting at least one extra syllable into a word to make it more emphatic. -- A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time: Email: [email protected] Phone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673 London +44 20 7193 2113 Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771 Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate Site: http://waywordradio.org/ Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/ Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/ Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/ Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	What's the one word that comes to mind when you hear the name J.D. Salinter.
0:44.0	Masterpiece? Reclews? How about the F word?
0:50.0	I ask because we had a call recently from a listener named Mark.
0:54.0	Mark is a journalism teacher in Indianapolis,
0:56.5	and recently he'd read an article on a journalism blog
0:59.5	called,
1:00.3	What J.D. Salinger taught me about literary use of the F word.
1:05.0	That article in turn prompted a conversation with a colleague about a couple of linguistic terms describing how the F word is sometimes used.
1:13.5	Now one of those terms is in fix.
1:16.7	The other is T-M-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-T-E-S-M-S.
1:22.2	Both of them are pretty close in meaning. They have to do with splitting a word and sticking
1:26.7	in at least one extra syllable. So instead of hi-ho, you say hi-diddly ho, or fan-fricantastic. Of course, you say hi diddly ho, or fan freaking-tastic. Of course you can also insert the F word in there, right?
1:37.2	Now Mark called because he and his colleague wanted to learn more about these linguistic terms and the differences
1:43.7	between them. First we asked Mark what examples he'd heard. Here's what he told us.
1:49.6	One was the British use of bloody, how they might say abso bloody lutely right where we might say
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