Talk:fucked up

Where are the sources determining definitively as to whether the term is, lexicographicaly, it's "fucked-up", i.e., the lexicographical interpretation that involves a hyphen, or, simply the negation of that possibility? Any such source's material should added per Wikipedia's source-material presentation rules, be cited properly, and obviously be reliable to some degree. I was unable to find such a source. Halpz? previous comment added by User:24.177.112.38


 * Wiktionary's aim is (approximately) to include all words which are used in written publications by at least two people to convey meaning over at least a year (for more detail see WT:CFI). We do not act as censors, however objectionable we find the grammar or spelling. So if the spelling is actually used, it is (or should be) included here, though sometimes we add ====Usage notes==== to explain that something is non-standard.


 * Having said that, the traditional standard rule of English usage for compound verbs was that their words were always separated by a space, while the adjectives formed from them were hyphenated (or sometimes, for a three-word compound adjective, only the first two words were hyphenated, as in "three-word compound adjective"). However, over the last century, use of compound adjectives with all words separated by a space rather than a hyphen has become increasingly common, and is now generally considered as standard as well.  You should find those rules in any comprehensive work on English usage, and in many style guides.


 * So all the forms of fucked up currently included in Wikt, ie fucked up [verb], fucked up [adj], fucked-up [adj], can be considered standard in 21st century English, though some of us would prefer to use fucked-up [adj] in careful writing [he says tongue-in-cheek]. Seriously, while some languages have bodies which "definitively determine" correct usage, there is no such body for English, where acceptable usage mutates over time and distance, and the lexicographer's job is to record what it is (and has been), not what we wish it were. --Eng in ear 04:52, 17 February 2018 (UTC)