Talk:Infix
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I'm curious about the chemical infixes. How are they used? Examples? Quincy 07:12, 15 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] How the Chemical Infixes Are Used
I quote from Infix itself:
English has only a few arcane infixes that are listed in dictionaries. Chemical nomenclature includes the minuscule infixes -pe-, signifying complete hydrogenation (from piperidine) and -et- (from ethyl), signifying the ethyl radical C2H5. Thus, from picoline, we can derive pipecoline and from lutidine, we can derive lupetidine; from phenidine, we can derive phenetidine. One word that contains -et- but is not a word when the -et- is removed is xanthoxyletin.
[edit] Disambiguation??????
This page is said to be a disambiguation page, however, it gives full meanings of both words without links to seperate sectiopns for each. Surely it is NOT a disambiguation page. Should the tage be removoed? I'm so convinced I HAVE removed it. Fork me 11:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Shiznit
Is that an infix? I heard it was an abbreviation of "shit isn't it", as in "that's the shit, isn't it?" ("that's the shiznit?") VolatileChemical 03:45, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
- Regardless of where it came from, if -izn- is inserted into other words where it doesn't have such a history, then it's become an infix. The only question would be its staying power in the English language, which is one reason why slang doesn't always get a lot of respect. kwami 19:10, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The -ma- Infix
[...] as in sophistimacated, saxomaphone, and edumacation
I think this is misdiagnosed as an infix, and is in fact formed in imitation of whadyamacallit - unless that is itself an infix.
Nuttyskin 01:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
