My new word of the day: tmesis
Feb. 6th, 2007 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2From Dictionary.com:
tmesis - the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware OR Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go.
I prefer the example of fan-fucking-tastic for fantastic personally!
The problem now is that I always use my word of the day as an insult but that's a bit difficult here! I don't mean using tmesis to generate an insult - that's far too easy (see example above) - I mean using the word "tmesis" itself in the insult.
My only contribution so far is "You are the tmesis in the sentence of my life!" but that sounds a bit weak! Anyone do any better?
tmesis - the interpolation of one or more words between the parts of a compound word, as be thou ware for beware OR Separation of the parts of a compound word by one or more intervening words; for example, where I go ever instead of wherever I go.
I prefer the example of fan-fucking-tastic for fantastic personally!
The problem now is that I always use my word of the day as an insult but that's a bit difficult here! I don't mean using tmesis to generate an insult - that's far too easy (see example above) - I mean using the word "tmesis" itself in the insult.
My only contribution so far is "You are the tmesis in the sentence of my life!" but that sounds a bit weak! Anyone do any better?
