Accents - Friggin'

[Steve]

---  "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at ...> wrote:
>
> Laura Ingalls Huntley wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/32047>:
> >
> 
> << <rant> Oh, and if I could just get my peers (or at
> least my cousins and brother) to quit saying "friggin'"
> every other friggin' word, my sanity would be greatly 
> improved. ^_~  I mean, what *is* that?  Why do they 
> feel the need to use it so often?  How, in the name 
> of all that is holy, can I make them stop? </rant> >>
>

> Catlady:
> 
> You probably CAN'T make them stop, and may be amusing
> them by trying.
> 
> They may keep repeating the same adjective because 
> they like the rhythm that it gives their speech -- a
> somewhat monotonous rhythm, but the drum or bass 
> doesn't have to be fancy to lay down the melody track
> on it.
> ...

bboyminn:

Here is a suggestion, have your relatives (nephews, 
nieces, brothers, etc...) look up that word in the
dictionary...yes, it really is in there...then see
how eager they are to say it, and how eager you are
to allow it.

Keep in mind that /friggin'/ is a contraction for
/frigging/ which is in turn based on the root word
/Frig/.

To speed things along -

American Heritage, 1994, 3rd Edition, ver. 3.6a CD-ROM

frig - v. frigged, frig·ging, frigs. - /Vulgar. Slang./
1. To have sexual intercourse with. 
--intr. To have sexual intercourse. 
[Middle English, to quiver, possibly from Old French 
/friquer/, to rub, from Latin /fricare/.]

So, they might just as well be saying 'f*cking', if 
you'll pardon my /French/.

The difference is that the other 'F'-word is /obscene/,
and this frigging 'F'-word is merely vulgar. 

I suspect they don't even realize that this is a real
word, nor do they realize what it really means, though
I have no doubt that they realize that they are using 
it as a substitute for a word of similar meaning.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn