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Old 18th June 2007, 09:03 AM   #39 (permalink)
j. d. worthington
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Re: Swearing in books

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Originally Posted by dustinzgirl View Post
My daughter tries to say FREAKING this to everything...I don't like that so much, its irksome and usually followed by the preteen eyeball roll and "whatever" which is the child version of F--- it.
Yes, that one amuses me, because of the origins of the term... and the fact that so few either know it, or think that we old fogeys know it.... (Also because it was used for so long in popular literature, when "f***" wasn't allowed.....)
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