Tmesis! The funny thing is that I use this word pretty regularly, because it’s a “classics” word, especially if you’re reading Homer. There it’s always a compound word, usually prefix and verb (not unlike, but not exactly like, German separable prefixes). This example seems more like infixation (specifically expletive infixation), but I suppose it could be used for any word “cutting” (tmesis > τέμνω, to cut).
Tmesis! The funny thing is that I use this word pretty regularly, because it’s a “classics” word, especially if you’re reading Homer. There it’s always a compound word, usually prefix and verb (not unlike, but not exactly like, German separable prefixes). This example seems more like infixation (specifically expletive infixation), but I suppose it could be used for any word “cutting” (tmesis > τέμνω, to cut).
Ah, I should have known the Greeks would have had a much more civil use of such a concept. I cannot imagine Aristotle saying “abso-fucking-lutly”