To my expropriating friend,<\/p>\n
You have opined about the unkempt nature of your recent communications, announcing that you will start using the word feck.\u00a0\u00a0
Now, if you wanted to talk about you being feckful (I think we reserve feckless<\/a><\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> for those promoting “solutions” which are, in ‘effect’ [you liked that bit of word play, didn’t you?] little more than opportunities to co-op energies that might otherwise actually produce change… ) we could talk about how full of feck you were (though I don’t know how we actually measure feck – perhaps a fecking meter – would we find one of those in Old Eire?).<\/p>\n But feck, as a minced oath (you will want to read this<\/a> <\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> amounts to what the ultrablue might argue is cultural appropriation (as you no doubt understand based on your intent to expropriate), and that would be potentially damning in a political melee where the critical play is choosing sides!<\/p>\n All I can recommend is what is suggested to be the lesson of the friars of Cambridgeshire:<\/p>\n Fratres Carmeli navigant in a bothe apud Eli, Ex Eli veniens praesenti sede locatur,
\nThystlis and breris crescentia gramina laedunt;
\nChriste, nolens guerras, sed cuncta pace tueris;
\nDestrue per terras breris, flen, fly\u021des, and freris.
\nFlen, fly\u021des, and freris, foul falle hem thys fyften \u021deris,
\nFor non that her ys lovit flen, fly\u021des, ne freris.<\/p>\n
\nNon sunt in c\u0153li quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.[1]<\/a><\/sup>
\nOmnes drencherunt, quia sterisman non habuerunt,
\nFratres cum knyvys goth about and txxkxzv nfookt xxzxkt,[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n
\nNec rex nec sapiens, Salomon tamen ille vocatur.<\/p>\n