Faction; new use of BE-?

[Laurence Horn]

>In a message dated 9/8/2000 8:45:48 AM, t.irons at MOREHEAD-ST.EDU writes:
>
><< A student recently wrote the following in a paper:
>
>This is a major question that factions linguists into prescriptive and
>descriptive camps.
>
>The use of "faction" as a verb is new to me.  Rather than suggest it is
>an error, which would place me in the prescriptive camp (!), I wonder
>whether others, who study usage more than I do, have noted this use
>(perhaps similar to impact and access, which are now regularly used as verbs.
>>>
>
>I've never noticed FACTION as a verb, but I did overhear a new (to me) use of
>the prefix BE-: "If the DESIGNER is bewildered by the way this project is
>working out, then I would say that we are all BEFUCKED!" Does anyone have any
>cites for BEFUCKED?

22 listed at www.google.com, not all from porno sites; one of the
more poetic ones is at
http://recordingwebsite.com/subt/subt2songs.htm.  My initial thought
was that your "befucked" was primed by the earlier "bewildered", but
that's not the case in the google hits--it just seems to be an archly
pseudo-archaic innovation.

larry