The line itself kinda defeats the purpose of having an open and free fanfiction site where everybody can read everybody else's work. I mean, a line of discouragement from reading the fic inside of the fic itself suggests that the fic isn't up to par enough to be published in the first place. I say you ought to bother people who use it by copying the line and saying: "if you don't want us to read it, don't post it on ff.net."
I agree. But sometimes people complain about a pairing in a sotry, I find this rather stupid, as the person was probably warned beforehand. But yes, I agree with you here.
Yes, sometimes that is rather stupid unless the person is trying to explain why they don't think the pairing would ever work... but you so rarely see that.
Second, I enjoyed your use of gratuitous profanity. By the way,
[gratuitous- adj. Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified: gratuitous criticism.]
You know, just so you know. Was it all necessary? Were you merely trying to impress the point that you CAN'T KNOW IF YOU'LL FUCKING LIKE THE FUCKING STORY UNTIL YOU FUCKING READ THE FUCKING STORY? I was just wondering. Do you feel powerful when you use the word "fuck" to put someone's work down? Does it make you feel superior, or do you just enjoy the word?
~wiThout s4nity
P.S.- Are you aware of the origins of the word fuck? It's an interesting story, but perhaps we should save it for a later time. Farewell!
The roots of the word "fuck" are, at best, uncertain. What is for sure is that "fuck" did not originate as the abbreviation for "Fornication Under Consent of King" or anything of that matter. This is a commonly held (false) folk etymology. The only hints we have to the root of fuck are the French "foutre", the German "ficken", the Latin "futuere" (all "to strike"), and Old Norse fukja ("to drive [boats]", also probably the origin of "windfucker" and "fucksail"). It's reasonable to assume that an English "fuck" might be related to the Anglo obsession with words related to beating to refer to sex. Hughes notes, "The metaphors for 'penis' are no less suggestive: tool, prick, chopper and weapon, the last of which . . . goes right back to Anglo-Saxon."
source: Swearing by Geoffrey Huhges. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 1991.
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I mean, a line of discouragement from reading the fic inside of the fic itself suggests that the fic isn't up to par enough to be published in the first place. I say you ought to bother people who use it by copying the line and saying: "if you don't want us to read it, don't post it on ff.net."
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Second, I enjoyed your use of gratuitous profanity. By the way,
[gratuitous- adj. Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified: gratuitous criticism.]
You know, just so you know. Was it all necessary? Were you merely trying to impress the point that you CAN'T KNOW IF YOU'LL FUCKING LIKE THE FUCKING STORY UNTIL YOU FUCKING READ THE FUCKING STORY? I was just wondering. Do you feel powerful when you use the word "fuck" to put someone's work down? Does it make you feel superior, or do you just enjoy the word?
~wiThout s4nity
P.S.- Are you aware of the origins of the word fuck? It's an interesting story, but perhaps we should save it for a later time. Farewell!
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source: Swearing by Geoffrey Huhges. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 1991.
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~ SilverCaladan ~
P.S. I also am enamoured of the word "topple".
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