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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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On sci.lang you wrote:

> The process exemplified
> here is minimally productive, however-- the inserted element is limited to a
> small number of expletives, and all the examples posted so far have it inserted
> into a rather narrow class of adjectives.  For those whose idiolect has this
> feature, is "White fuckin House" or "accus-fuckin-ation" really grammatical?

H.L. Mencken records "obli-goddamn-ation", which is a noun:  "Tell Hearst I'm
under no o. to do that, and I won't."  Note the loss of the "g" from "obligation".

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John Cowan						cowan@ccil.org
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