There's something like this in one branch of the Edastean languages of Akana:
Ndak Ta penta ‘to fuck up’ (described as "highly insulting when said of somebody else") → Fáralo peitə ‘fucking do’ (auxiliary verb, "adds a jocular obscenity to the sentence") → an emphatic auxiliary in several daughters of Fáralo (Namɨdu pyotta, Farwo n-Abebbu pyatta, Fallo na Mendia piatta, Woltu Falla peta), with a meaning similarly to the English adverb "really"
There's something like this in one branch of the Edastean languages of Akana:
ReplyDeleteNdak Ta penta ‘to fuck up’ (described as "highly insulting when said of somebody else")
→ Fáralo peitə ‘fucking do’ (auxiliary verb, "adds a jocular obscenity to the sentence")
→ an emphatic auxiliary in several daughters of Fáralo (Namɨdu pyotta, Farwo n-Abebbu pyatta, Fallo na Mendia piatta, Woltu Falla peta), with a meaning similarly to the English adverb "really"
Is fucking-infixing not elegant enough for you?
ReplyDeletepartially - it's still an expletive when used as an infix, also, it's a bit too peripheral. writing a whole -fucking-infixless book is no challenge.
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