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[[File:Frak licence plate.jpg|right|thumb|A [[vanity plate]] displaying the revised spelling]] |
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'''Frak''' or '''frack''' is a fictional version of "[[fuck]]" first used in the [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|1978-''Battlestar Galactica'']] television series. It continues to be used throughout different versions of the [[Battlestar Galactica|''Battlestar Galactica'' franchise]] as a [[profanity in science fiction]]. |
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==Etymology== |
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"Frak" is a fictional censored version of "[[fuck]]" first used in the [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|1978 ''Battlestar Galactica'']] series (with the spelling "frack"). In the [[Battlestar Galactica (re-imagining)|"re-imagined"]] version, and subsequently in [[Caprica (TV series)|''Caprica'']], it appears with greater frequency and with the revised spelling "frak", as the producers wanted to make it a [[four-letter word]].<ref name="yn2">{{cite news |work=Associated Press|title=What the `frak'? Faux curse seeping into language |first=Chris |last=Talbott |url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26510283/ns/today-entertainment/t/what-frak-faux-curse-sweeps-geek-nation/ |date=October 1, 2012}}</ref> |
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==Other uses== |
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"[[Frak!]]" was the title of a game released on the [[BBC Micro|BBC Micro B]] and [[Acorn Electron]] in 1984, and later the [[Commodore 64]]. The game saw the user controlling a caveman called Trogg, who had to navigate maze-like scenarios and dispose of deadly obstacles; when coming into contact with such an obstacle or falling a substantial distance, Trogg would cry "Frak!" |
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"Frak" is used in the same sense as in ''Battlestar'' by characters in the early 21st century "[[Ciaphas Cain]]" series of Games Workshop ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' novels by [[Sandy Mitchell (novelist)|Sandy Mitchell]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=For the Emperor (extract)|first=Sandy|last=Mitchell|format=PDF|url=http://www.blacklibrary.com/pdf/fortheemperor.pdf|publisher=[[Black Library]]|isbn=978-1-84416-050-1|oclc=52946642|year=2003|pages=13|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060518224926/http://www.blacklibrary.com/pdf/fortheemperor.pdf|archivedate=May 18, 2006|df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
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"Frak" is also used in the same sense as "Battlestar" several times in the Warner Bros. / DC Comics TV series ARROW. Specifically by the characters Felicity Smoak and Curtis Holt. An example can be seen in the season four episode "Lost in the Flood" at 22:05. |
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A campaign in the United Kingdom aimed at banning [[hydraulic fracturing]], the controversial method of shale gas extraction known as [[fracking]], have organised themselves under the name [[Frack Off]]. |
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==References== |
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*{{cite journal|title=Frakking Toasters and Jurisprudences of Technology|first=Kieran|last=Tranter|work=Law and Literature|date=Spring 2007|volume=19|number=1|pages=45–7d|format=hosted at JSTOR|doi=10.1525/lal.2007.19.1.45}} |
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==External links== |
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{{wiktionary|frak}} |
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*[[BattlestarWiki:Frak|Frak]] at the Battlestar Wiki |
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[[Category:Euphemisms]] |
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[[Category:Battlestar Galactica culture]] |
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[[Category:Profanity]] |
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