"Fucked-upness" feels awkard to me. As though there's ambiguity over where to attach the "-ed". 'Cause it's not "upness", it's "fuckedness", but "fuck-upedness" sounds even more clumsy than "fucked-upness" ... so "upfuckedness" always seemed like a way to get each part attached to the correct other part, since "up-" as a prefix works, and reversing the order of modifiers is allowed so much of the time.
Maybe it really is just a familiarity thing then. Though I'm still interested in the infix hypothesis.
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Maybe it really is just a familiarity thing then. Though I'm still interested in the infix hypothesis.