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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 [[Arrow (TV series)]] from Warner Bros and DC comics. 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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{{Refend}} |
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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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