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Message no. 1
From: Mike Elkins <MikeE@*********.COM>
Subject: Fuck
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:40:34 -0500
>One of these days, that word is going to mean something else, I don't know
>what, but people will end up going up to each other "F*ck this and
>F*ck that, and it seems to be going this way on the list right now.
>(look Ma, I cleaned up my act)

Unlikely. IIRC, fuck has been an english word well back to pre-norman times,
and seemed to be old even then. It has outlived any other slang term I know
about. If you went up to a saxon peasant you'd have a hard time communicating
(he/she would think you were speaking french, probably) until you started
swearing...

Double-Domed Mike
Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Fuck
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:43:39 +0000
|Unlikely. IIRC, fuck has been an english word well back to pre-norman times,
|and seemed to be old even then. It has outlived any other slang term I know
|about. If you went up to a saxon peasant you'd have a hard time communicating
|(he/she would think you were speaking french, probably) until you started
|swearing...

Yep.... It's a well known fact that "fuck" is an old Anglo-saxon word...

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Message no. 3
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Fuck
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 18:36:57 EST
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:43:39 +0000 Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
writes:
>|Unlikely. IIRC, fuck has been an english word well back to
>pre-norman times,
>|and seemed to be old even then. It has outlived any other slang term
>I know
>|about. If you went up to a saxon peasant you'd have a hard time
>communicating
>|(he/she would think you were speaking french, probably) until you
>started
>|swearing...
>
>Yep.... It's a well known fact that "fuck" is an old Anglo-saxon
>word...
>
And it had the same connotation and meaning as it does now (and was still
a dirty word:)

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