There is a really strong trend in Transformers fandom to use “frag” to mean “fuck”. Every single time I see this, I mentally ‘trip’. To me, this is fragging:
In the U.S. military, fragging refers to the act of attacking a superior officer in one’s chain of command with the intent to kill that officer. The term originated during the Vietnam War and was most commonly used to mean the assassination of an unpopular officer of one’s own fighting unit. Killing was effected by means of a fragmentation grenade, hence the term.Or this:
Frag is a computer and video game term originating from the word fragging, […]. A frag is roughly equivalent to “kill”You can perhaps see why the Transformers fandom tendency to use “frag” interchangeably with “fuck” gives me problems.
May I suggest using the Battlestar Galactica cuss of “frak”, which actually does mean “fuck” instead?
Thanks for this, it’s news to me. :)