Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: "Fecking"

Che significa esattamente "fecking"?
Dovrebbe significare qualcosa come "bastardo" / "stronzo", e dovrebbe
essere una parola tremenda e bruttissima, tanto e' vero che la nostra ex
suora usa "effing" al posto di "fecking".
Insomma, mi pare proprio che "effing" e "fecking" siano entrambi usati
al posto di "fucking" ("that fucking person"), e' cosi'? E questo "fecking"
e' davvero cosi' impronunciabile?
grazie e saluti
Gennaro
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 e' davvero cosi' impronunciabile?
These and other variations are usually used so as not to use the 
vulgarism for which it stands; in news group posts to avoid the message 
being filtered out and deleted, as might happen in some news groups.
Effing, incidentally, is the literal pronunciation of what sometimes is 
printed as f...ing.
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Xakero

being filtered out and deleted, as might happen in some news groups.
I'm not all that sure you're right. "feck" is used a lot in "Father
Ted", and I'm told that it's a much milder word than the one you're
thinking of, but is only used in Ireland. Until I saw "Father Ted",
I'd never heard of it.
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Adam Atkinson (
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What's yellow and equivalent to the Axiom of Choice? Zorn's lemon.

 I'd never heard of it.
QUOTE
feck
\Feck\, n. [Abbrev. fr. effect.] 1. Effect. [Obs.]
2. Efficacy; force; value. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
3. Amount; quantity. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
He had a feck o' books wi' him. --R. L. Stevenson.
The most feck, or The feck, the greater or larger part. ``The feck o' my 
life.'' --Burns.
UNQUOTE
Source: 
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=feck
I don't know Father Ted. Is "feck" used there with the above meaning?
http://www.google.com/search?q=fecking&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0
, 
on the other hand, gives numerous examples of "fecking" used as a 
substitute for "f...ing"
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Xakero

 Xakero
ciao
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 I don't know Father Ted. Is "feck" used there with the above meaning?
Sull'OED ho trovato anche:
--Quote--
to feck, v.
slang.
[Origin unknown.]
trans. To steal; see also quot. 1809.
1809 G. ANDREWES Dict. Slang & Cant, To feck--to look out, to
discover the best means of obtaining stolen goods. (..) 1922 JOYCE
Ulysses 268 Fecking matches from counters.
--UnQuote--
pero' niente a che vedere col significato usato nel libro che sto
leggendo... :-)
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I don't know Father Ted. Is "feck" used there with the above meaning?
Hard to say. It's used as an exclamation, and is also one of the few
words Father Jack knows. "Feck! Arse! Drink! Girls!" is pretty much
all he says.
"fuck" would seem very strong by Father Ted standards, so I am
inclined to believe that "feck" is _not_ a euphemism for it.
I don't think it's a word I'd recommend using unless you were in
Ireland and were _absolutely_ sure it was ok, in much the same way
that I wouldn't go around in the US saying "Yo, smack my bitch up"
and calling black men "brother". (Note: I am not black.)
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Adam Atkinson (
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)
In the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand
what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. (T. Lehrer)

 inclined to believe that "feck" is _not_ a euphemism for it.
Well, isn't "arse" very vulgar as well? I thought it stood for "ass" exactly
like "feck" stood for "fuck".
Giovanni

like "feck" stood for "fuck".
"arse" is just the UK spelling, I think.
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 groups.
Io avevo visto in un paio di newsgroup usare per lo scopo 'fsck'. Ma
ha cosa ovviamente ha senso solo per chi conosce Unix e discendenti,
e fa ridere solo questi.
(fsck e` l'acronimo di File System ChecK, ed ovviamente se si deve 
utilizzare questo comando non per un controllo periodico ma per una
mancanza di tensione o peggio di un guasto di un disco, la cosa e`
poco piacevole)

I'm Irish and I agree with someone earlier - this is an Irish expression
(for 'fucking' - not in the sexual sense, only in the 'damn!', 'bloody!'
sense), used mainly in the Republic of Ireland - and yes, Father Ted made
the saying famous throughout the UK :-)

 Ma davvero? Non lo avrei mai immaginato!
As you probably already know, in colloquial conversation the g in the
suffix -ing is often dropped, in writing substituted with an
apostrophe: loving becomes lovin', talking becomes talkin', effing
becomes effin'
With the above in mind you are now ready for the anecdote about the
weather report:
QUOTE
Just a little story. Long, long ago, back in the days of Black & White
TV that no one will remember, back in days of UK Commercial TV, there
was a Weather reporter, of ATV Birmingham if I remember correctly.
In those days the weather man (yes, it was always a man) stood in
front of a black steel board with white magnetic letters to spell out
the Temperature, Wind, Forecast etc., etc. This picture was then keyed
over another camera with a local map of the area.
On this particular winter's night, there was one thing to report, just
FOG, FOG, FOG and to come ... more FOG.
There was obviously a bit of grease or dirt on one of the "F" letters,
because as the camera cut to the weatherman, one slipped slowly down
the board to the bottom of frame while the weather man recited that
there was only fog to report, and only more fog to come.
As the camera cut back to full face of the weather man, he smiled
apologetically and said "I am sorry for that 'F' in Fog" and froze as
he realised what he'd just said, as the vision mixer slowly dissolved
to the ATV Caption.
UNQUOTE
Source: 
http://www.smpte.org.au/societynews2001-10.asp
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Xakero

 weather report:
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lol!
Thanks for the laugh!
bye
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