wasteses

[Benjamin Zimmer]

See, I thought you were going to bring up the Flanderseses.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Bradley A. Esparza <baesparza at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Or, learnding from the Simpsons.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Or, non-jocularly, "drownded".
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
> > bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> > > 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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