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:I disagree as well. Meaning is lost by dodging around it. "Frak" has a variety of uses that are immediately clear as a parallel, but "don't care who he fraks" doesn't make sense or convey its meaning without understanding that "frak" stands in for "fuck." --[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]] 12:18, 30 December 2005 (EST) | :I disagree as well. Meaning is lost by dodging around it. "Frak" has a variety of uses that are immediately clear as a parallel, but "don't care who he fraks" doesn't make sense or convey its meaning without understanding that "frak" stands in for "fuck." --[[User:CalculatinAvatar|CalculatinAvatar]] 12:18, 30 December 2005 (EST) | ||
::I'll count two votes to one as being outvoted, but I hold my objection to direct use of the term on a public page (Wikipedia notwithstanding). Added reference back to the page. --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 11:26, 1 January 2006 (EST) | |||
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About this Article
I felt that we could keep the tone of the article to a "PG"-ish rating by avoiding the direct use of our real-world counterpart curse, even as a link. There's enough there for the average Joe to know the origin of the word. I also rewrote the article with better clarify of examples from actual dialogue. The Re-imagined Series is intended for adults, per RDM, but we should make an effort to avoid the use of actual profanity in articles if the phrase(s) do not explicitly appear in aired dialogue (which, in turn, acknowledges acceptance of it for public consumption per broadcast practices and FCC regulations). The use of the term in BSG is so amusing to me that sometimes I think we should classify this page as a Silly Page. --Spencerian 11:42, 30 December 2005 (EST)
- Disagree. It is disingenuous not to mention "Fuck", on which "Frack" is quite obviously based. --Peter Farago 11:46, 30 December 2005 (EST)
- I disagree as well. Meaning is lost by dodging around it. "Frak" has a variety of uses that are immediately clear as a parallel, but "don't care who he fraks" doesn't make sense or convey its meaning without understanding that "frak" stands in for "fuck." --CalculatinAvatar 12:18, 30 December 2005 (EST)
- I'll count two votes to one as being outvoted, but I hold my objection to direct use of the term on a public page (Wikipedia notwithstanding). Added reference back to the page. --Spencerian 11:26, 1 January 2006 (EST)