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Next time you find yourself in that situation, try shouting "feck" instead, which is regarded as a fairly mild swearword (indeed, barely a swearword at all). N
by dghf 9y ago
Next time you find yourself in that situation, try shouting "feck" instead, which is regarded as a fairly mild swearword (indeed, barely a swearword at all).
Not being Irish, I'd never heard of it until I first saw Father Ted [0], and was initially shocked at the characters uttering what I assumed was a dialectical variant of "fuck" every five minutes.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Ted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Ted
- gerdesj 9y agoGood advice and I was going to suggest it myself. To anyone wishing to swear in English (as a second language), "feck" is a very good choice to try and make as your instinctive choice. It really is not offensive - I suspect it might be based on the word feckless, rather than fuck but then I'm English and not Irish and have no idea. Perhaps it is an Anglicization of a Gaelic word.
- jansho 9y agoOr to go even milder: "Effing heck!"