As I've said before, many so-called swear words were once perfectly acceptable words. The S-word was still acceptable in George Washington's time. "Fart" has only more recently become unacceptable. The "F" word though was always taboo. For this reason it was rarely recorded in print. The earlies existing reference to it is in the satirical poem "Flen flyys" from 1475. Written half in English and half in Latin, the poem satirizes some horny Carmelite friars in the English county of Cambridgeshire. It goes "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk". Meaning "[The friars] are not in heaven, since ..." they are fornicating. The poem can be decoded taking in account the alphabet of the time had U and V interchangeable, as were I and J. UU represented W. "Fvccant vvivys of heli" (from the poem) is a Latin/English mix which reads "They f*** the wives of Ely..." The two big English swear words, the F word and the S word, are interesting. Because every language seems to have some equivalent. Merde, merda and merda is the S-word equivalent in French, Italian and Latin. And for the F-word, Foutre, Ficken and Pierdolić in French, German and Polish respectively. Pierdolić is interesting. Because it shows that the F-word sometimes begins with a P in languages. But it always seems to begin with an F or P, IAE.
And autocorrect tries to make it a duck, giving us Dennis Hopper's immortal quote from Blue Velvet, "Duck you, you ducking duck!"
What makes me feel that I've adequately expressed myself in the strongest manner possible is: Calling someone or something--a suck-ass motherfucker!! Said with MUCH VIGOR!! I've certainly had occasion to use it a lot lately!! Of course I would not use it in real life if I thought saying it would offend somebody.
"real life" is the only reality, the rest is just bullshit. It is therefore, in my opinion, extremely important to express yourself authentically in real situations. If someone deserves a fuck off they deserve to hear it face to face. Sometimes people need to be offended.
