A great use of the f-word

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Can someone analyse this sentence for me please? I heard a trucker say this, in the workshop, when we told him the starter motor on his truck was knackered. To our amusement he said:

"Fuck, the fucking fucker's fucked!"

I reckon it's a pretty good effort, being a 5 word sentence with only one word that is not the f-word.

Unfortunately, I was not taught the framework of English in the 70s New Zealand school system. I know what adjectives and nouns are, and that's about it.

The f-word can be used as an exclamation, a verb, an adjective, and a noun. — Hot Licks, Apr 04 '22 at 00:30
INTERJECTION, the ADJECTIVE NOUN'[COPULA] PARTICIPLE-ADJECTIVE. — Robusto, Apr 04 '22 at 00:34
@RobustosupportsUkraine why not make your comment the answer? It is clearly the simple analytical answer and it seems ungenerous for anyone now to repeat it as their own answer. — Anton, Apr 04 '22 at 07:22
Does this answer your question? How many different parts of speech can the f-word be used as? — Mitch, Apr 04 '22 at 20:29
"Great use of the f-word"? Why? Fuck is a precise English word for the Latinate "copulation", and its use as a mindless swear word has resulted in the absurd situation where publications will print it as a swear word, but not if it is used literally as a verb or noun, where they insert asterisks or replace it with euphemisms like "bonk". No shit! — either. That comes out as infantile "poo". — David, Apr 04 '22 at 20:49
The duplicate is a delight to read but as a list of usages it does not formally answer the question, so I vote to reopen. — Anton, Apr 05 '22 at 07:02

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 04 '22 at 13:45

The whole sentence may be considered as an intensifier, which it does by turning every normal part of speech into one of those.

Each of these intensifiers substitutes for a normal word. Consider:

Fuck, (interjection)
the fucking (adjective)
fucker's (noun + copula)
fucked! (participle-adjective)

If you were to write this sentence without the severe profanity, it would read something like this:

Damn, the stupid truck is broken!

It could also be rendered as a scream of anguish or consternation:

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh!

A great use of the f-word

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