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Abso-b****y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation
680,319 views
Tom Scott
2.38M subscribers
Published on Apr 13, 2020
There are rules in the English language that you've probably never been taught, but you know anyway: how to split apart words with "infixes". But you've never been taught it because some of those infixes are words you probably shouldn't use in front of your high school English teachers...
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast Lingthusiasm is at http://lingthusiasm.com/ - and there are two bonus episodes, #1 and #13, on the podcast Patreon about exactly this!
Gretchen's book BECAUSE INTERNET, all about the evolution of internet language, is available:
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680,319 views
Tom Scott
2.38M subscribers
Published on Apr 13, 2020
There are rules in the English language that you've probably never been taught, but you know anyway: how to split apart words with "infixes". But you've never been taught it because some of those infixes are words you probably shouldn't use in front of your high school English teachers...
Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast Lingthusiasm is at http://lingthusiasm.com/ - and there are two bonus episodes, #1 and #13, on the podcast Patreon about exactly this!
Gretchen's book BECAUSE INTERNET, all about the evolution of internet language, is available:
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