Here's why; over to you, Eli:
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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to
man as it is: infinite.~ William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Things aren't always what they seem - except when they are. Perception is in the eye of the beholder, which only adds to the confusion.
feck — n obsolete (Scot)
- worth; value
- amount; quantity
- The greater part; the majority
(Scottish dialect) Fek, short for effect
Ooooookay, except for the fact that both feck and fex are obsolete, one could argue that there isn't really a correlation between the two nouns. However, without wading too deeply into the etymology of euphemisms referring to excreta (nasty thought, that), I feel that there is a certain similarity between the adjectives feckless and fexless. Never mind that the root nouns are pretty much opposites (value vs. poop). Also, never mind that fexless didn't exist as an adjective, as far as I know, until I dreamed it up just now. Even my sainted mother knew the term "scared shitless," which - leaving out the physical connotations - refers to a near-paralytic state of terror. Seems to me that a person suffering from this condition has become ineffectual, and it's not too much of a stretch to translate this as feckless. Or fexless.fex - Turd. Fex (or faex) is the singular of the Latin word feces (or faeces). Although feces has entered English as a mass noun, fex retains the original meaning of a single, discrete piece of shit.
Karen,
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