From: Hohberger, Clive (CHohberger@zebra.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 18:08:16 EST
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From: Mike Ayers [mailto:mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:59 AM
To: 'John Burger'; unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: Phonology [was: interesting SIL-document]
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [ mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org
<mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org> ]On
> Behalf Of John Burger
> I actually don't think anyone would really say "be-f***ing-hind" - it
Yes, they would. I can't say for sure whether or not I've heard
this exact one before, but I can say that its valid Yankspeak.
/|/|ike
[Hohberger, Clive]
Mike,
Actually "be-f***king-hind" is a British grammatical construct, known as the
"infix profane".
Speaking as one knowledgable in American idioms,
there is no-f***ing-way an American would have conceived of the f***ing
infix construct...
An American would have said something like:
"I don't think anyone would actually say they are f***king behind it..."
Clive ;-)}
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