Rhi fuckin nocerous
Ambi fuckin dexterous
Po fuckin tay fuckin toes
Here’s Wiktionary’s category for 3-syllable English words in case anyone wants to get creative.
Edit: I’d argue “adultery” is doable but difficult, because it almost inherently sounds like you’re saying three words: “a fucking dultery”.
Edit 2: “the pu-fucking-trescence” might be my new favorite way to describe a terrible odor. It’s so extra.
I’d argue putrescence is emphasized on the first syllable. But then I’m not a native speaker, so… But Putrescence sounds quite wrong to me.
Yeah, it comes from “putrescent” which has a stressed second syllable. “Quintessence” is a close sibling structurally if that one’s less off-putting.
well - today I learned. I knew “putrescent”, I’d just been saying it with stress on the wrong syllable. Thanks!
To be fair, from the linked pronunciation example, putrescent doesn’t sound so wrong at all, while quintessence sounds really very very wrong :D We do have Quintessenz in German which is stressed on the first syllable, so that’s probably why. Coming from two latin words, combined into one, I’d argue both languages got it wrong, because the first two syllables should both have equal stress.
When I started listening to lots of audiobooks and podcasts in English, I discovered that many words have the stress further than I’ve thought from reading them.
This is why we don’t have to conjugate our verbs, we make up for it with this very strict word order.
It’s also probably why English as a Second Language is so difficult aside from the inconsistencies and exceptions.
Pronouns are the last bastion of inflection in English, and it’s fun to see English-speakers being perpetually confused about them. Namely about ‘I’/‘me’ and ‘who’/‘whom’. Since the word order and particles already handle the meaning of sentences, people don’t quite know why they need to modify the pronouns too. And don’t have the vocabulary for the rules, as grammatical cases are long forgotten.
Ehh… I like the spirit of this, but it’s not quite as immalleable as they say. You can have green great dragons if “great dragons” are a distinct thing from simply dragons. Like how in Game of Thrones, you’d say Ghost is a “white dire wolf”, not a “dire white wolf”.
in that case, “great dragon” is the noun, and is consistent with the proposed rule
Yeah, that’s just an open compound word, like “emperor penguin” or “hammerhead shark.” We have open compounds where the component words are separated by a space, hyphenated compounds (not super common with animals but can be seen in words like “mother-in-law”) where the words are separated by a hyphen, and closed compounds that just stick the two words together (“kingfisher,” “anteater”).
Phil - Fuckin - Adelphia.
And Adelphia’s dad just went to get his gun.
Philadelphi - Fuckin - A
FYI: Inserting a word in another word like this is known as “tmesis”.
As a philly boy i gotta say, iv never heard it prounounced that way.
Fanta Fucking Stic.
Hmm…
TA is the stressed syllable here. Fan fucking tastic This one is actually commonly said
Fun fact: Eddie Izzard once came to Berlin and did comedy gigs in German language. My favourite creation of his: Ausgefuckingzeichnet!
Abso-no-fucking-lutely way
We spent a solid week talking about fucking infixation in morphology class back in undergrad.
I can assure you that the rule on the slide is absofuckinglutly wrong. English speakers are remarkably consistent about how they do fucking infixation. Somehow, they all understand prosodic feet better than a room full of linguistics majors that just spent a week learning about it.
So the syllable needs to be edging before the fucking insertion.
Phonology! My old friend!
Pho-fuckin-nology
Nah, phono-fuckin-logy sounds more correct
Ricky would ace this course.
What if you say it with an Italian accent? It’sa me, Philadel-fucking-phia!
that assumes you are speaking in iambic and I have issues with that assumption
