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Old 11-Mar-2005, 15:41
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one of my friends said once
"where's the fucking J...?"
She was looking for this person but she couldn't find her
Now, what 'fucking' literary means in this context ?
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one of my friends said once
"where's the fucking J...?"
She was looking for this person but she couldn't find her
Now, what 'fucking' literary means in this context ?
It functions purely as an intensifier and it implies anything from dispicable, vile, unpleasant, dirty and corrupt (or whatever else you can think of that's far from flattering).
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To me, it would sound more natural to say 'Where's that f***ing J...?' if J is the person's name. 'The' would be used with a position, like 'the f***ing doctor'.

Here it is an intensifier, but some speakers seem to think that every sentence needs the word at least once, so it is often meaningless.
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To me, it would sound more natural to say 'Where's that f***ing J...?' if J is the person's name. 'The' would be used with a position, like 'the f***ing doctor'.

Here it is an intensifier, but some speakers seem to think that every sentence needs the word at least once, so it is often meaningless.
Unless what he wanted to say was: Where is the f*** jacka..s?
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