wasteses

[Bradley A. Esparza]

Or, learnding from the Simpsons.

Bradley A. Esparza

"You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy
Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or, non-jocularly, "drownded".
>
> m a m
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
> bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> > A correspondent writes:
> >
> > > The other night I was watching an old episode of Project Runway, and
> one
> > of
> > > the contestants said, "It wasteses time."  It sounded like she took
> > "wastes"
> > > and conjugated it again, for "wasteses."
> > >
> > > Although it caught my attention, it also sounded familiar.  Is this a
> > > (somewhat) common thing for people to do in speech?  In my head it
> sounds
> > > girly, but that could be like the thing where people think only
> sorority
> > > girls using rising intonation or whatever.
> >
> > I had assumed the pronunciation here was [weIst at s@z], along the lines
> > of the jocular double-plural "breasteses", but said correspondent
> > heard it as [weIsts at z]. Has anyone come across this type of doubled
> > inflection (outside of Gollum-speak)?
> >
> > Thread from last February about the double plurals "buttockses",
> > "breasteses", "pantses", and Gollum's "pocketses":
> > http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0802b&L=ads-l&D=0#17
> >
> > I can't recall hearing the /-s/ inflection being doubled on a verb,
> > but /-(@)d/ often gets doubled or tripled for fun, as in, "I'm
> > screwededed" [skrud at d@d].
> >
>
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