--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "chrysaetos@..." wrote:
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> [snip]
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> On the same note, "fuck" or variants thereon show up in a number
> of western languages, which suggests it hails from somewhere
> around Indo-European (the lingual ancestor of everything from
> latin to german to norse). In both cases, the actual origin
> is lost to the mists of unrecorded history. Because really,
> who notes the first occurence of obscene gestures?
>
Actually "fuck" is an archaic term meaning "to strike a blow"...
Thus, to fuck someone up is actually the original usage, while the
sexual references were originally idioms... And over time, the
original sense of the work was lost, and only the idioms remained...
Received on Fri Mar 10 2006 - 18:24:14 CST