Hey! Nice to see a familiar face.
TheGordianKnight
joined 1 year ago
Hi, I've been lurking for awhile but this solidified my decision to make an account.
I am VERY keen to help out with the tabletop games community. I play a lot of tabletop games and have a lot of moderator experience (plus a lot of free time).
I'm always looking to get involved with my interests, and I also want to make sure that the moderator culture from Reddit STAYS on Reddit.
There is a language practice called Mincing, but there are VERY rare cases of REVERSE mincing!
People ask 'Is it "For fuck sake" or "for fucks sake". The OG worst curse was "For Christ's sake" as you were taking the Lord's name in vain. At first the solution was "Don't do it" but as we started to get other curses brought in and spread in popularity mincing became a thing.
So you hit your thumb with a hammer and say "OH FUUUUU-DGE!" Changing the "Fuck" to "Fudge" is mincing! Stub your toe, "JEEE-PERS that hurt!"
Now "For Christ's sake!" (Like I said before) is a very old curse, and a well used one, but (in one of a literal handful of cases) we decided that IT WASN'T A BAD ENOUGH CURSE AND NEEDED TO GO HARDER.
So we REVERSED MINCED IT.
Christ became fuck.
And because in the sentence his sake is possessive ('s sake) it should ALWAYS be "fuck's sake". Fuck obviously has never been a person, but in this context we have renamed gods son "Fuck" for the purpose of expressing how annoyed / angry we are. And everyone is cool with it. ๐