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The latter. I'm sorry for being sensitive about it -- maybe it's an overreaction -- but over the years, it really wears down the patience to see the name of the

The latter. I'm sorry for being sensitive about it -- maybe it's an overreaction -- but over the years, it really wears down the patience to see the name of the place I grew in dragged through the mud repeatedly. You might say it's our own damn fault, you might say my parents' generation and mine are to blame, I won't argue about that. You may criticize the communism, the backwater mentality, the ingrained sense of entitlement and lots of other things about (ex-)Yugoslavia. A lot of that stuff is the reason why I left. But please, keep it civil, for the sake of us poor schmucks that loved growing up in that place and then left it, disappointed.

bdunbar 15y ago
Nothing offensive was intended by the word 'friggin'. Sorry you got your feelings hurt. BTW a friend of mine actually bought a Yugo. We made fun of it at the time, but in terms of gas mileage and how much he paid for it, it was a big winner.
fabricode 15y ago
There are many uses of "friggen" or the word that it is being substituted for, and in this case, it has nothing to do with denigrating the object. By putting "friggen" into the middle of a word, you're verbally underlining / emphasizing it. Really emphasizing it, as is underlining it multiple times. For instance, in the movie Pretty Woman, when one of the two friends is trying to figure out someone for whom a relationship worked out, she responds with "Cinder-friggen-rella". ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes?qt0466870 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes?qt0466870 ) I know this is an overly-long response to a minor issue, but I just didn't want you thinking that someone was making fun of your country. Instead, I believe the person who originally said it was essentially trying to say "a really, really, really communist country" had a more appealing entry system than today's America.
- bdunbar 15y ago
  I never thought of the word 'friggin' as super-underlining, but that is a good simile and what I intended it to mean. Thanks!
- zem 15y ago
  the technical term is "tmesis", if you want to read more about it in a linguistic context.
  - bdunbar 15y ago
    the technical term is "tmesis" And I'm off to wikipedia for a while. It's Friday night and I just learned something - the weekend is off to a great start.

bdunbar 15y ago

Nothing offensive was intended by the word 'friggin'. Sorry you got your feelings hurt. BTW a friend of mine actually bought a Yugo. We made fun of it at the time, but in terms of gas mileage and how much he paid for it, it was a big winner.

fabricode 15y ago

There are many uses of "friggen" or the word that it is being substituted for, and in this case, it has nothing to do with denigrating the object. By putting "friggen" into the middle of a word, you're verbally underlining / emphasizing it. Really emphasizing it, as is underlining it multiple times. For instance, in the movie Pretty Woman, when one of the two friends is trying to figure out someone for whom a relationship worked out, she responds with "Cinder-friggen-rella". ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes?qt0466870 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes?qt0466870 ) I know this is an overly-long response to a minor issue, but I just didn't want you thinking that someone was making fun of your country. Instead, I believe the person who originally said it was essentially trying to say "a really, really, really communist country" had a more appealing entry system than today's America.

bdunbar 15y ago
I never thought of the word 'friggin' as super-underlining, but that is a good simile and what I intended it to mean. Thanks!
zem 15y ago
the technical term is "tmesis", if you want to read more about it in a linguistic context.
- bdunbar 15y ago
  the technical term is "tmesis" And I'm off to wikipedia for a while. It's Friday night and I just learned something - the weekend is off to a great start.