Posted on 03/27/2014 4:38:23 AM PDT by secret garden
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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
infix \IN-fiks\ noun
a derivational or inflectional affix appearing in the body of a word
Example sentences:
The Philippine language of Tagalog adds infixes such as "-um-" and "-su-" to verbs to convey different tenses and voices.
"As Mark Peters writes, [The Simpsons character Ned] Flanders is 'hyper-holy,' and his infixes sanctify a typically profane process. He is also gratingly cheerful … and diddly perfectly conveys his sunny attitude: murder and dilemma sound a lot less forbidding when infixed as murdiddlyurder and dididdlyemma…."
— From Michael Adams' 2009 book Slang: The People's Poetry
Etymology:
Like prefixes and suffixes, infixes are part of the general class of affixes ("sounds or letters attached to or inserted within a word to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form"). Infixes are relatively rare in English, but you can find them in the plural forms of some words. For example, "cupful," "spoonful," and "passerby" can be pluralized as "cupsful," "spoonsful," and "passersby," using "s" as an infix. Another example is the insertion of an (often offensive) intensifier into a word, as in "fan-freakin'-tastic." Such whole-word insertions are sometimes called "infixes," though this phenomenon is more traditionally known as "tmesis."
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Rise and shine!
Empro-er Obama infixes manure into the very fabric and weft of his actions.
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Recent election results seem to indicate an influx of infesting infixes that do anything but “fix” our problems.
I never understood why the caricature of the mooch didn’t include the rumposaurus that follows her around.
I can’t stand it when it’s so cold out I can’t ****infix my car!
“If you help me win this race, you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice, someone who’s been literally fighting tort reform for 30 years, in a visible or public way, on the Senate Judiciary Committee,” Braley said in the clip, which Republicans have been gleefully circulating. “Or you might have a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Because, if Democrats lose the majority, Chuck Grassley will be the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
Chuckles has been on the Judiciary committee for nearly 30 years... but let's put some NOOB on there just because he's a lawyer not a farmer.
One of my Sophomore English classes had the New Yorker as required reading. I despised that rag before I was in that class, and hated it even more when I got done. I went to a private military college, which was nice because there were very few commie professors, but this English prof was hardcore pinko all the way, and we never agreed on just about anything. I got my C and walked.
Chuckles was suspicious of Souter being a crypto-lib while the lawyers were clueless.
Especially someone who has been “fighting tort reform.”
Hobbes uses ellipsis, and commas for that effect.
Since there is a word for it, I must not be daft after all!
I so heart you for making my day!
not all the lawyers... ; )
yes, really, fighting it, not FOR it! that was quite telling.
Look at the bright side...
If we follow Shakespeare we can reform government, in a day.
Just sayin....
Ironically, the only person I know with that much disdain for lawyers....is one..
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