{"id":3719,"date":"2007-10-20T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/20\/the-fuck-test\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T08:28:18","slug":"the-fuck-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"The In-fucking-credible Stress Syllable Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/wtf_pinker_on_swear.html\">Mind Hacks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an aside, once, whilst drinking with a psycholinguist (say that after a few pints) I was taught a useful way of quickly working out the stressed syllable in any English word &#8211; something which is apparently called the &#8216;fuck test&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Simply insert the word &#8216;fucking&#8217; into the word, as if you were using the swear word for emphasis, and the syllable that follows the &#8216;fucking&#8217; is the stressed syllable.<\/p>\n<p>For example, absolutely -> abso-fucking-lutely. The stressed syllable is the third: i.e. abso<em>lut<\/em>ely. It works for every multi-syllable word I&#8217;ve found so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mind Hacks: As an aside, once, whilst drinking with a psycholinguist (say that after a few pints) I was taught a useful way of quickly working out the stressed syllable in any English word &#8211; something which is apparently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-blowing-miscellania-and-other-neat-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}