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From: rdd@usa1.com (Aaron J. Dinkin)
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:17:36 -0500
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In article <4taeev$8cr@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
anno4000@lublin.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Anno Siegel) wrote:

> Mark Rosenfelder <markrose@spss.com> wrote on alt.usage.english & sci.lang:
> 
> [various criteria defining the concept of word]
> 
> >5) A sequence that can't be interrupted by other words.  E.g. in "The White
> >House spokesman denied Newt's accusations", you can insert words between
> >most of the morphemes ("The nervous White House spokesman angrily denied
> >all Newt's serious allegations"), but not in between "spokes-" and "-man",
> >or "accus-" and "-ation", or "White" and "House".
> 
> Unbe-fuckin-lievable!

That's called dystmesis. So is "a whole nother story".

-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom

