• Mac@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    Unrelated, genuine question: Why do some people write “fookin”?

    Is it just for fun?
    Do you pronounce it that way?

    I personally write “fucking” and rarely “fuckin”.

    Just curious.

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      38 minutes ago

      People often write how they talk, and I find the best authors will incorporate dialect and intonation into their writing. One of my favorite examples is of Blood Meridian. It’s so amazing that one can literally tell who is talking purely from word choice and grammar with no quotation marks and often no indicators of who is speaking.

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      23 hours ago

      I think it’s use is popularized by the tv show ‘Peaky Blinders’ with the Birmingham pronunciation of the word.

      Some have accustomed themselves of writing a bit more cautious, as multiple platforms have active swear detection (not the reason to use it on Lemmy, but there were are).

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      23 hours ago

      I thought it was to emphasize that they are Australian, but that’s just because of a character in a book that I read.