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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsa very interesting word. fuck..
> Perhaps one of the most interesting and colorful words in the English
> language is the word "fuck". It is the one magical word, which, just
> by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate. In
> language, "fuck" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be
> used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and intransitive
> (Mary was fucked by John). It can be an active verb (John really
> gives a fuck) or a passive verb (Mary really doesn't give a fuck); or
> an adverb (Mary is fucking interested in John), and as a noun (Mary
> is a terrific fuck). It can be used as an adjective (Mary is fucking
> beautiful). As you can see, there are very few words with the
> versatility of "fuck".
> Besides its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to
> describe many situations:
> Greetings How the fuck are you? Fraud
> I got fucked by the car dealer. Dismay
> Oh, fuck it! Trouble Well, I guess
> I'm fucked now. Aggression Fuck you.
> Disgust Fuck me. Confusion What
> the fuck...? Difficulty I don't understand this
> fucking business. Despair Fucked again.
> Incompetence He fucks up everything. Displeasure
> What the fuck is going on here? Lost
> Where the fuck are we? Disbelief
> Unfuckingbelieveable. Retaliation Up your fucking
> ass. Telling time I have to work till 5
> o-fucking-clock.
>
> It can be used in an anatomical description -- "He's a fucking
> asshole."
> It can be used to tell time -- "It's five fucking thirty."
> It can be used in business -- "How did I wind up with this fucking
> job?"
> It can be maternal -- as in "Motherfucker".
> It can be political -- "Fuck George Bush."
>
> And, never forget General Custer's last words: "Where did all them
> fucking Indians come from?"
> Or the Mayor of Hiroshima: "What the fuck was that?"
> And last, but not least, the immortal words of the Captain of the
> Titanic: "Where is all this fucking water coming from?"
> The mind fairly boggles at the many creative uses of the word. How
> can anyone be offended when you say fuck?
> Use it frequently in your daily speech; it adds to your prestige.
> Today - say to someone "Fuck You!"
YeahSureRight
(205 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)rurallib
(62,346 posts)Party at your house next weekend.
YeahSureRight
(205 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)I'm old enough to remember when this word was really, really taboo! And, when I first said it and experienced the pleasure of expressing EXACTLY how I felt at that moment.
Fuck is truly one of the great words of the English language.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)"Fuck you very much."
rurallib
(62,346 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)it's fucked
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)and fuck you anyway
Jeff R
(322 posts)Actually it is four words the way it was explained to me years ago:
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. Hence F.U.C.K.
I have no idea if that is where the word came from or not.
However I do agree it is one awesome word. It is one I use freely since I learned it.
and again
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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He did a great diatribe on "words you couldn't say"
or something like that.
I miss George.
CC
auntAgonist
(17,252 posts)Loryn
(941 posts)I remember having my mouth washed out with soap for saying fuck. It's been an important part of my vocabulary ever since.
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)Subject: FW: Puzzler
The 'Car Talk' show (on NPR) with Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, have a feature called the 'Puzzler'. Their most recent "Puzzler" was about the Battle of Agincourt. The French, who were overwhelmingly favored to win the battle, threatened to cut a certain body part off of all captured English soldiers so that they could never fight again. The English won in a major upset and waved the body part in question at the French in defiance. The puzzler was: What was this body part? This is the answer submitted by a listener:
Dear Click and Clack,
Thank you for the Agincourt 'Puzzler', which clears up some profound questions of etymology, folklore and emotional symbolism. The body part which the French proposed to cut off of the English after defeating them was, of course, the middle finger, without which it is impossible to draw the renowned English longbow. This famous weapon was made of the native English yew tree, and so the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking yew". Thus, when the victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French, they said, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW!"
Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since "pluck yew" is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker", which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'f', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-pluck-yew.htm
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp