Which is Worse....?

area51newmexico · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: Which is Worse....?

Hey, I'm bored and in a silly mood.

I'd probably say the "C" word is worse. I'd say fuck in front of my parents but not cunt - it's just wrong!
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Lamiaceae · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject:

Neither...

This type of poll reminds me of http://www.youmustchoose.com/

It's the explanations people (optionally) give about how their mind works which I think is the best bit.
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alienator · Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

I've got to say the C word is just wrong...like Helen I use the F word in front of my parents but not the C word.
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Skorpz · Forum Ace & Best Noob 2007 Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 1396

I don't get it, a swearword is a swearword you can't have good ones.
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tafkao · Forum Overlord Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 3946

My ex said this "Why would I use the word for one of my favourite body parts to insult people, it doesn't make sense". I tend to agree in general, but in select male company, I have used it without any self-consciousness. Depends on the context and company. I worked with a managing Director whose most common term of address for meetings of his management team was "You cunts...." He was a country boy, but a self-made millionaire by age 40.

Rach · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:42 am Post subject:

A word is just a word - the only word that can ever really hurt someone is 'fire' and that's more the associated shooting really...

I know a lot of people that use the 'f' word as if its just a usual word though, and some of them are offended by the 'c' word. And I don't know anyone who uses the 'c' word as often as the 'f' word, so by that logic when they do use it it is to greater effect as people aren't expecting it as much and it shows that you are really angry
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aalpha · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject:

Watch and see kiddies, one day the "C" word will be as ordinary as the "F" word. But for me the "C" word is worse. Just because it is.

From an old source:

Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word, first recorded in English in the 15th century. Age has not dimmed its shock value, even though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in a poem entitled "Flen flyys" written sometime before 1500, is in code, illustrating the unacceptability of the word even then. The poem, composed in a mixture of Latin and English, satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, with the title taken from the first words of the poem, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia" mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply writing the preceding letter in the alphabet. As we decode, we must watch for differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now. For g write f; for x, v (used for u and v); d, c; b, a; o, n; v, t; xx, vv (which equals w); k, i; x, v; z, y; t, s; p, o; g, f; i, h; f, e; m, l; and for k, i. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."
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tafkao · Forum Overlord Joined: 19 Aug 2006 Posts: 3946

Everything imaginable (and then some) about Fuck.

It seems to have been a handy and popular word for a long time before anyone committed it to print. The reason for the 'coding' of the word was apparently more because it specifically insulted nuns and friars, rather than out of general modesty.

In Chaucer's writing the common word was Swyve, but given possible Germanic roots for Fuck, and Chaucer's desire to resurrect English words, the two probably co-existed for centuries before Chaucer.

The Oxford English Dictionary says the exact origin is unknown, and they are usually right about these things.

Fuck and the C word both debuted in the OED in 1972. Satirist/standup comic Lenny Bruce deliberately used such words on stage to get himself arrested for obscenity. His autobiography is called How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.