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Dear writers: please stop mincing oaths and just write "fucking". Not "freaking", not "f*%$ing", not "fscking".

It's not any less classy to write "fucking" than "freaking", and the latter just makes you sound like a jackass.

Write what you mean.

I disagree. "fucking" (and directly-censored variants like "f*%$ing") suggest anger on the part of the speaker. "freaking" much less so.

I hear "freaking" often enough in spoken English that I don't think anything of seeing it in written form. I can't say that I've heard "fscking" said aloud, which almost surprises me, but I bet some folks here have.

Ref: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fsck

I say "Eff Sucking". I'm unsure if I go it from "this fucking sucks" or fsck

"Eff ess checking"

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