Infuckingfixing.

Neil Gaiman has a most delightful blog, in which he relates things he has learned and by which we can learn them too. It turns out that words like "absofuckinglutely" have a grand linguistic heritage.

An infix is an affix inserted inside another morpheme. This is common in Austronesian and Austroasiatic languages. For example, the Tagalog language has borrowed the English word graduate as a verb. In this language, a grammatical form similar to the active voice is formed by adding the infix to the first syllable of a verb, so a speaker saying "I graduated" uses the derived form grumaduate.

It's called "infixing." When Snoop Dogg says "hizouse" and "shiznit," he is also infixing. There's a special entry for expletive infixation with many delightful examples. Fanfuckingtastic.

I could explain this.

But I won't.

Tags as an art form.

Like many of us, one of my favorite writers Neil Gaiman has updated his Blogger blog and begun to add tags. Some of his tags are quite creative and whimsical.

UNLIKELY MADE UP WORDS WITH EXTRA NESSES AT THE END
COOL BUT DISTURBING PHOTOS OF GIANT PEOPLE
MISSPELLING "BOROGROVES"
OBSCURE REFERENCES TO TONY HANCOCK
ARGH
COCKUPS