Timeline for Isn't “kio la fek” grammatically wrong?
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| Sep 19, 2016 at 15:38 | comment | added | Jiri Lebl | I assume the main reason for Evildea using it is that it sounds good to him. Grammar does not come into it. When you are trying to be "rude" it is very counterproductive to also be "grammatical". The two do not go together in vast majority of languages. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 12:48 | comment | added | Andrew Woods | In Esperanto, the difference between Aĉulo! and La aĉulo! is that the first is addressed directly to the insulted person, while the second is paroloj al si. However, in English, the sole purpose of the the in What the hell? is to break up the sentence; otherwise it sounds as though you are saying "What hell...?" i.e. Kiu infero? It may be a short version of What in the hell of fire? or something similar. I do not know which is in operation here; I suspect the latter, which is why I think it is an anglicism. | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 12:16 | comment | added | Lyubomir Vasilev | I do not think I completely agree with you. Even if we consider la fek an exclamation, I still do not understand why la is needed. It may be needed in English (as I said, I'm not a native, so I don't know for sure) but it is still odd to me in Esperanto (and my native language too). | |
| Sep 19, 2016 at 10:23 | history | answered | Andrew Woods | CC BY-SA 3.0 |