Monday, April 13, 2020

Abso-b████y-lutely: Expletive Infixation



Let's talk about expletives, without using expletives. If you want to use them, get your swear jar ready. Tom Scott is not so much talking about swear words themselves, but the habit of slipping a swear word into a middle of another word, which you hear everywhere these days, but is not exactly new. That kind of English construction doesn't have rules you learn in school, but there are rules anyway.

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