Battlestar Galactica Australia (original) (raw)

Frak! Just a post containing information you probably didn't want to know...

Yesterday on my LJ I asked the question how do you spell frak. I came across three different spellings in ten minutes. The various spellings were:

1. Frak/Frakking

2. Frack/Fracking

3. Frakk

Thanks to brendanm720 I learned that it's Frak/Frakking and I was given this quote:

Why "frak"? Where did the idea come from to make this the new F-word? Not that I don't like it, I find it amusing."

It's straight out of the original series. I dropped many other terms from the old show like "centon" (a unit of measurement) and "yahren" (year) because I felt they distracted from the mood I was trying to create and they sounded a bit silly to my ear. There was something elegantly lovely about "frak," however. There's nothing like being able to say my favorite four letter word on TV over and over again and I salute Glen Larson for giving the joys of frakking up, frakking off, not giving a frak, and frakking-A to the masses.

All this and more can be found at http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/02/index.html

I knew it came from the original series but I found this interesting anyhow.

I have now filled my quota of useless information for the day.