The History Of Fuck: Why Rachel Should Never Have Answered Lavinia In The First Place.
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
it's amusing, the pastor at my school told us in Religion class - it started in England, in the Victorian age, when the church was going around and seizing all books that had anything erotic in them
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
and they stamped on the covers, "F.U.C.K." - Found Under Carnal Knowledge
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
shit came about more recently, in America even, I think - farmers used to store bags of manure on the bottom storage holds on steamboats, when they went down the river, but the fumes were highly combustible, and there were bad explosions and such
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
so they started stamping on the bags, "S.H.I.T. - Store High In Transit"
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
anyway. There's a verse that Paul wrote about not eating meat, if it offends your brother, and of course that can be taken to extreme examples, but still: if there's something that's not necessary, that doesn't help you at all, and that offends someone - why do it?
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
I don't believe there's anything wrong at all with saying fuck and shit, but it offends people
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
so why say it in public?
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
it's a matter of courtesy, to me
R.A.B. = R.A.Z. = Regulus Arcturus Black-Zwarts! says:
are you sure that's not the uncorrupted, chaste version of the true, forbidden & morbid tale? how do you know it didn't grow out of something King Richard I used to scream at his mistresses? and what does porn come from, then?
R.A.B. = R.A.Z. = Regulus Arcturus Black-Zwarts! says:
Courtesy is all good and well, but I will say what I want when I want and I think it is ridiculous that people should feel offended at my word-choice.
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
maybe it is ridiculous - I agree with you there
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
but they are offended anyway
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
and they probably will be for the rest of our lifetimes
R.A.B. = R.A.Z. = Regulus Arcturus Black-Zwarts! says:
I'm offended when someone says something insulting about God, homosexuality, the holocaust or any blend/mix of those things.
R.A.B. = R.A.Z. = Regulus Arcturus Black-Zwarts! says:
I don't see people turning quiet around me.
The rings, Anna! The rings! says:
and of course I have no way of knowing those are the true stories of how the words came about - I hardly trust Pastor Williams very far. But I haven't heard anything yet to disagree with them
R.A.B. = R.A.Z. = Regulus Arcturus Black-Zwarts! says:
Nor do I ask people to. I close that insulted feeling I might have off and say nothing. I won't stop people from expressing them the way they want - I respect opinia, but I refuse to let myself be affected by them.
But Dictionary.com says:
[Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov.]
Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”
fuck
n : slang terms for sexual intercourse [syn: fucking, screw, screwing, ass, nooky, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, shag, shtup] v : have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]