http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7085 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:13:34 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7085 I say (maybe I’m odd?):
NeANDerthal
manifesTATion
extROARdinary
inSUFferable (but I’d say inSUFfer-fucking-able)
magnifiCAtion
aLUminum (but alu-fucking-inum)
As well as:
ACTivated
MECHanism
VARiable
(those three which I got from a phonics site discussing multi-syllable words with first syllable stressed — so at least that writer agrees with my pronuncifuckingation, another word that doesn’t work for me)
Of course, now I have to go look them up:
nƒì-ƒÉn’d…ôr-th√¥l (stress on 2)
mƒÉn’…ô-fƒï-stƒÅ’sh…ôn (stress on 4)
ƒ≠k-str√¥r’dn-ƒïr ƒì (stress on 2)
mƒÉg n…ô-fƒ≠-kƒÅ’sh…ôn (stress on 4)
mƒïk’…ô-nƒ≠z …ôm (stress on 1)
v√¢r’ƒì-…ô-b…ôl (stress on 1)
It looks like I say these in the normal way to me. Some of them do have secondary accents; perhaps that’s what you are hearing.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7084 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:24:14 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7084 Kelly, also the words you list as stressing the first syllable, actually don’t:
activated (actiVATed) acti-fucking-vated
mechanism (mechanISM) mechan-fucking-ism
variable (variABLE) vari-fucking-able

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7083 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:20:06 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7083 Kelly,
Not sure why you think the test fails for the words you list?
Neander-fucking-thal
mani-fucking-festation
extra-fucking-ordinary
in-fucking-sufferable
magni-fucking-fication
al-fucking-uminum works for the american pronunciation and spelling or
alu-fucking-minium for the english pronunciation and spelling,

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7082 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:23:16 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7082 Words I’ve found (so far), for which the test fails.
Neanderthal
manifestation
extraordinary
insufferable
magnification
aluminum
any word stressing the first syllable (activated, mechanism, variable)

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7081 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:13:27 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7081 You gain points by your more-than-obscure second generation REPO MAN reference.
I mean, of course, ‘melonfarmer’- when REPO MAN aired on cable, ‘melonfarmer’ was, amusingly, the dubbed substitution for ‘motherfucker.’

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7080 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:39:28 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/wtf-pinker-on-swearing/#comment-7080 The insertion of a word into another is known as “tmesis”.

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