-----Original Message-----
From: Hohberger, Clive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:08 PM
To: Mike Ayers; 'John Burger'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Phonology [was: interesting SIL-document]

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...


Delenn said "abso-fragging-lutely dammit" on Babylon 5 once. Wasn't that American?
Jill

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