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hpeak13
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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 16:10

like "fook off" or "fook you"?

Can I say "screw off" and "screw you"?

or "for f**ks sake" which is merely an expression, and a rather common one among my irish friends

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 16:33

I use feck and that has gone under the radar for a while.

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hpeak13
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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 16:44

I mean, if I drop a brick on my foot and yell "FUDGE" people know what I really mean. Just changing the letters is silly.

Oh, twirly....you get that F#%cki%g job yet? I'm still waiting, these brazzers are slow as s%$t

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 16:46

Originally posted by hpeak13

like "fook off" or "fook you"?

Can I say "screw off" and "screw you"?

or "for f**ks sake" which is merely an expression, and a rather common one among my irish friends

Sweetheart, [he wrote in a patronising tone] I know that your vocabulary and command of the English language would be employed to better effect without resorting to facsimiles of the those long established and oh so satisfying delicious words. Let us not diminish them under the death shroud of political correctness.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 16:58

It's a good Anglo-Saxon word, and it is robbing my heritage to be unable to use it in everyday use. However, variations of the word I find mocking of my country-folk unfortunate enough to live in places like Hull or Grimsby, who have no choice but to use words such as 'Fook' due to their geographical disadvantages, and inability to speak the proverbial Queen's..likewise our Gaelic cousins, who mangle the word Film into Filum somehow..?

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 17:04

Originally posted by Twirly

I use feck and that has gone under the radar for a while.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 17:16

Originally posted by finrudd

...likewise our Gaelic cousins, who mangle the word Film into Filum somehow..?

Ah, feck off ya sassanoch eejit.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 17:20

Originally posted by Esprit

Ah, feck off ya sassanoch eejit.

I ran that through Google Translate, but nothing came up.

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 17:39

Originally posted by finrudd

Originally posted by Esprit

Ah, feck off ya sassanoch eejit.

I ran that through Google Translate, but nothing came up.

There are a couple of alternate spellings: Scottish Gaelic, ‘Sasunnach’ and the Irish Gaelic ‘Sassanoch’ both meaning [derogatory] Saxon or ‘the bloody English.’ Eejit is a creation of the Irish and taken from the word ‘idiot.’

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Posted: 18 July 2012 at 18:19

Incidentally, in addition being an amusing substitute for the f-word when in church, ‘feck’ also has the meaning, ‘to steal’ but in a lesser or venial way. e.g. one could feck an apple but not a whole box of ‘em.

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