Vowel-altered profanity

[jstorrie]

All dwarves are pussies. Real men/women aren't scared to play a race without awesome stat modifiers.

[Ashes]

All dwarves are pussies. Real men/women aren't scared to play a race without awesome stat modifiers.

Now say that to a dwarf's face.

... Or, y'know, the general area above it.  If you have neck problems.

[Agent_137]

you guys are fucking retarded.

feck isn't used in real life. it's strictly for the game, so it can't be a weaker version of fuck. It's just the armageddon version of fuck.

To me, it's immersive.

It'd be one thing if people were saying, "frack." "Shat" even, is defintely a weak version of shit, and not zalanthan.

But Feck and Shet? That's zalanthan. It just like describing something as tuajje-blue instead of steel-blue. And so I prefer it.

[Rindan]

But Feck and Shet? That's zalanthan. It just like describing something as tuajje-blue instead of steel-blue. And so I prefer it.

No, if the word was abacr and shorka, those would be Zalanthian words.  Feck and shet are fuck and shit with the vowels replaced with e's.  Either that, or the Zalanthian version of fuck and shit just so happen to be spelled with just one letter changed and have exactly the same meaning.

you guys are fucking retarded.

Ouch, that hurt dude.  That word really cut me to the core.

you guys are fecking retarded.

O-ko-ly-dokely!

[Ashes]

With a yellowed grin, the dusty, unshaven man says, in southern-accented sirihish:
    "Too feckin' old for this shet.

His expression grim, the dusty, unshaven man says, in southern-accented sirihish:
    "Too fuckin' old for this shit."

There's a distinct difference in the feel you get for the character.  In one, you get a grizzled, battle-weary, and amiable-because-he's-seen-so-much-crap.  The other is just grizzled, battle-weary, and gith-the-fuck-out.

Both have their place, really.

[WarriorPoet]

Feck always makes me think of Dr. Elliot Reid's 'frick', so it always makes me snicker, but...

I would rather see a good, meaty fuck. The word has weight to it.

-WP

[alger]

I think "fuck" as an english word is already weak.  In my opinion of all the languages I know, english probably has the most boring curses.  It's just bland.  So ig it doesn't really make a difference to me.

Though why are you guys so anal?  Go concentrate on your own RP, dammit!  You all SUCK and need improvement! Stop waisting time criticizing other people's RP.  SUCK I tell you... SECK!...

[Boggis]

feck isn't used in real life. it's strictly for the game, so it can't be a weaker version of fuck. It's just the armageddon version of fuck.

Well, uh, actually it is but just not in the US. Feck is used pretty extensively in Ireland as part of our dialect of English. If you come to Ireland you will hear it regularly - especially in more rural areas. It is a weaker version of fuck here and doesn't carry the same weight at all.

Having said all that I generally prefer to use it IG as it's got a nice Zalanthas feel to it in my opinion. The docs (help curses) also state that it carries the same weight as fuck. If we can accept people riding giant insects, people shooting flames from their hands, people being able to read the minds of other people then I'm sure such healthy and vibrant imaginations can also stretch just that tinsy bit more to let feck be a proper meaty curse.

[Agent_137]

feck isn't used in real life. it's strictly for the game, so it can't be a weaker version of fuck. It's just the armageddon version of fuck.

Well, uh, actually it is but just not in the US. Feck is used pretty extensively in Ireland as part of our dialect of English. If you come to Ireland you will hear it regularly - especially in more rural areas. It is a weaker version of fuck here and doesn't carry the same weight at all.

oh sweet. Well, I still stand by my earlier argument since i'm sure the 19 people who voted against feck aren't irish.

If they are irish, well, I hope they're as enlightened as you, and not a bunch of fecking githclits.

[Whira's Luck]

I've always seen 'feck'  as a dialect thing with neither more nor less weight behind it than the word fuck. Or other altered obscenities.

That being said, it doesn't really matter what you use to curse. You can use no 'profanity' to say some eloquently violent and obscene things. Profanity and obscenity in its most purest form is the natural use of language to describe things in unnatural and ugly ways. In many respects, it's no different than telling a tall tale or yarn. There are people who can make the most profane things sound beautiful and wise, simply by the way they use the words, and what they say with them, and conversely, use beautiful, harmless words in ways that would turn the air blue around them.

So feck, fuck, coont, cunt, ass, arse, shit, shite -- these things don't matter. They're just a few letters strung together to form a word -- it's what you say around them and their timing that make them either sound natural or like you're trying too hard (to be less/more obscene).

[Zoltan]

If they are irish, well, I hope they're as enlightened as you, and not a bunch of fecking githclits.

"Fecking githclits". Oh man, that got me laughing. Good word, good word.

[Aquarian]

They're just part of an accent, to me.

Some people ask ye if y'wanna go t'th'Barrel fer a swig o' ale.

Some people just call you a kank-feckin' piece of shet.

Same thing.

yes

[Viagra_Kank]

I usually type out fek instead of fuck and similar euphemisms.  

My reasonins is as follows -- I curse when I relax and video games (i.e. Arm) are part of my relaxing time.  Therefore I curse when I Arm.

However, I worry that some sixteen year old's mom is going to walk into the room and read over his shoulder while he's playing, so I want him to at least have plausible deniability that he's playing anything dirty or weird, in case he has overly religious parents.  

It's kind of a long shot but I feel really bad for kids like that and I see no reason to make things harder on them.


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