Bizarre leaps of logicAmorous Badger says: "I once humorously suggested that someone had been internet-stalking a Big Brother contestant. They concluded that I was threatening them. What's the oddest misunderstanding you've been involved in?"
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Dec 2013, 13:48)
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I think what he means by "all purpose modifier" is the uses of 'fuck' like "that fucking botty-biscuit" where the person isn't actually fucking anything, it's just adding emotional force to the utterance. Words like this are sometimes called 'intensifiers'.
There's some linguistic literature on this type of thing, and also some interesting stuff to do with FCC guidelines in America.
I thought that 'fucking' as an intensifier was a lot older, but it does look like it's pretty recent- I'd like to know more.. In fact, searching for those kinds of uses from the 1800s mostly turns up horrible OCR errors on google: link
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Thu 12 Dec 2013, 15:31,
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