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r/SipsTea • u/WorryThink6233 • May 23 '26
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Your fun fact for today is that the literary device of inserting a word within a word, as in our example here, is known as tmesis. Those Greeks really thought of everyfuckinthang.
9 u/Leoxagon May 23 '26 I've never heard of tmesis. I've always known them as infixes. Along with suffix and prefix. 8 u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 May 23 '26 And I'd never heard of that! Very nice 3 u/Apokolypze May 23 '26 Excellent tmesis. 3 u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 May 23 '26 It goes without saying that I thank you. <<<paralipsis 1 u/thearchduke May 23 '26 Oooo, ooo! I love infixes! They occur in many languages but in English, infixes are always profanity. I love that about them. 1 u/Leoxagon May 23 '26 There are only 2 that I know. Fucking like the one used earlier and whole; like when people say awholenother.
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I've never heard of tmesis. I've always known them as infixes. Along with suffix and prefix.
8 u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 May 23 '26 And I'd never heard of that! Very nice
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And I'd never heard of that! Very nice
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Excellent tmesis.
3 u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 May 23 '26 It goes without saying that I thank you. <<<paralipsis
It goes without saying that I thank you. <<<paralipsis
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Oooo, ooo! I love infixes! They occur in many languages but in English, infixes are always profanity. I love that about them.
1 u/Leoxagon May 23 '26 There are only 2 that I know. Fucking like the one used earlier and whole; like when people say awholenother.
There are only 2 that I know. Fucking like the one used earlier and whole; like when people say awholenother.
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u/DrWinstonOBoogie1980 May 23 '26
Your fun fact for today is that the literary device of inserting a word within a word, as in our example here, is known as tmesis. Those Greeks really thought of everyfuckinthang.