Using proper English!!!!

Involved Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Sweden

Lesson One: The F word

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End of english lessons! Mr. Green

Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:06 pm

I quess I need some more lessons.

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 8:17 am

Susann, Any specify letter??? Very Happy

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:21 am

Maybe S_ hit but I seldom use such words. Smile

but this F swearword is really interesting and the discussion I found about this word also:

http://dict.leo.org/cgi-bin/dict/urlexp/20041211000652

Involved Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 293

I always understood the origins of the word came from an abbreviation of a legal term in English something along the lines of fornication, underage, carnal knowledge.
Is not not strange how so many other similar words a 4 letters
Lazy, hell, cr*p, sh*t, work, wife

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:42 pm

Poor, Rich, Came, Went, Time, Love, Lust, Life, Born, Died, Dead, Dumb, Nuke

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:31 pm

Hi Steptoe,

our last discussion about a word was heard enough.I spent 3 hours for it.
Wife and work a normal words only with 4 letters. ?!
F word.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=f uck (without space)

It ´s possible that nobody knows where this word exactly came from. I ´ve never heard the german word "frichen", so I quess that this word is indeed a mixture beetween latin and english see also number 10 history of this f-word.I agree with number 8 "it ´s the word of all words for any situation." I normally don´t use this word but whenever my son use this it means something like bullshi_t. However, it s interesting because we use words and often we don`t know where the words, proverbs and phrases came from.

I tried severall times to translate our old German proverbs. We are number 1 with this since a long time but after translation I thought the meaning isn`t anymore the same it´s only similar to the orgin.
That`s the reason why our proverbs are still in German. I mean sometimes it s only a translation problem but no doubt the "F-word is the word of the words". Smile

registered · Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:18 am

http://modena.intergate.ca/ginorules/humour/text/humour/the.f.word.html
Ah great Monty Python..

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:43 pm

I cant find anything that confirms or even mentions my source of the word.
Around 30 yrs ago I was studing Contract Law, and it came up in a lecture, also when I was at school in the 60s..we had and Old English Gentleman teacher for our English classes,( ex Cambridge Universtry scholar from around the early 1900s) one of our studies was slang and swear word orgins.
I notice with my children at school and Unversity somehow the 'modern' education system and its PC crap has twisted and even lost so much of the old proverbs/words...sad they can mean so much in ones day to day attitudes to life.

Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:29 pm

Indeed that´s really sad but time changes. The children prefer today chatrooms instead of libraries and good books.

New Member Joined: Nov 13, 2005 Posts: 17

haha very funny

Involved Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 263

Well being english we get F`d all the time

wether its war and we have had quite alot of those(the upper classes)wanting more power.
people who try and blame someone else for the mess (the upper classes), lets face it in our history where even they were`nt that educated by todays standards of fair play and doing the right thing.

and so on it goes on so we needed a word that would be easily transferable to all situation , from the middle ages where not many people could read or write. but we knew what they where saying and it fits the bill in all the examples even today. it probably does come from the word fricken we have had invasion by lots of countries over the last 3000 years and beyond. so it gets abreviated to what we can pronounce.F??K

divorce we get the bad end by women so we are F--kd(they get kids and the money)with or without visiting rights.
when we go out with greedy females we get f--kd or screwed for money
by our bosses who are greedy we get Fkd
by someone who doesnt want the blame we get fkd and it comes outa everones wage. or by someone who is lazy you do the work we get fkd espescally if its the bosses cousin.
if you hit your thumb with a hammer you shout f--k and everyone laughs
you cant win but it`s very effective in letting people know how you feel.
its a very suitable word in mho Laughing

and for a note the middle finger for us is "sit on it",screw you

but our war with france (1600)which they cut the index and middle finger off of archers so they could`nt use the bow anymore, so they gave the 2 finger salute to them as they where effect ways of cutting them down quick, which today means f-off