Now that the F word is so common, are there any bad words left in the English language?
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Nope, I think that one applies to almost anything.
1070951
Many commonly used swear words have deviated from their original meaning in the mind the of speaker.\n\nPeace!
847534
Just type using proper English, and you'll set a good example, at least.  I don't think Internet slang is going away, and isn't there something more important in the world to peeve about?   The Middle East, Poverty, Globalization?
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based on Wikipedia, FWYH's FUCK WHAT YOU HEARD\n\nIn Yahoo answers, F's censored. Why ? because F is a dirty Word. The dirty one you said when you isult some one with Fu c k\n\nhere's the link : \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppressed_logic\n\nFeel free to contact me :)
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Good Heavens ! Didn't you know that is very common even today, among most English speakers ?\nIn mod e-conversations and communications, where condensed words are in vogue, there are still several who suddenly type 'GH!' !
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I'm sure a majority are non-native english speaking.  I find that in the gaming community as well.\n\nOne girl (I answered her question not to her liking) e-mailed me a long, rude and profane message and  informed me it's slang these days and perfectly acceptable to have poor grammer, spelling and sentence structure.  She knew how to spell and if she wanted to spell it that way she would.  If so, I wonder why they bother to put spell check available here?\n\nI hope I'm dead by the time they all take over the country.....
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Contrary to common notions I think that cussing at times is actually very intelligent, at least linguistically. What better way than to emphisise one's frustration, grief, surprise, happiness etc. In a manner of speaking it can be very eloquent, if not over used. There are "ok" words to use that can be more hurtful than curse words but they are not considered bad.
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F***. It's versatile, and in spite of the fact that there are thousands of other words that start with the letter "f", it's called THE "f" word.
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Robert said it the most accurately, to my knowledge:\n"It used to be but it has become more accepted in the last few years. Some older people I class myself in this group) still find it dis-tasteful."\nI do say bloody and bloody hell for emphasis, though admittedly it has no bite, though a woman of about 60 that I know has flat told me not to curse when I say it.\nIt goes back, I think, past the old childhood game, "Bloody Mary."\nBut with my age group, all sorts of swears have not real bite like they did at one time. I can tell someone my age (a mate) to F--off and it is taken as a joke.  So now we are working on variations as are others\nFark off--Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's guide\nFeck off-- who knows but sounds better in  mixed company.\nAnd to think, bugger off was at one time a horrible thing to say!\nSo my take, use Bloody Hell with some discrimination to preserve the unique qualities of British Curseword English...\nAnd if you don't agree with me, you can floggle off, Bloody, Blasted W@nker!\n[Being creative can be soo draining].
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Not bad. Bad just isn't a strong enough word. How about "appalling"? I think that comes closer to the truth.
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vulgar curse words in the 1st century  were invented by the French. the f word comes from focation with means intercouse
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NO! It shouldn't.\n\nPerhaps there can be 'internetspeak dictionaries' that contain all the terms, but we don't want to reduce the language, not reduce it. That makes everything so much harder. It's not real, it's just stupid and pointless. It's unprofessional. English is a perfect, developed and perfected. We don't need to screw it up.\n\nAnd it's not the norm. Not everyone writes like that. There are many literate people. It's only the norm for lazy people, and it'll lead them into incompetence.\n\nYou're a prime example. You don't know much about /grammar/ because you speak like that. You've abandoned spelling. Grammar is spelled with an a, friend.\n\nEver read 1984? Let's veer away from a world like that and your modern day version of 'newspeak'.
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The f-word is actually latin.  Deriving the etymology of this word is difficult, because it's been a taboo for most of its existence and citations are rare. The earliest known use, according to American Heritage and Lighter, predates 1500 and is from a poem written in a mix of Latin and English and entitled Flen flyys. The relevant line reads:\n\n    Non sunt in celi quia fuccant uuiuys of heli.\n\nTranslated:\n\n    They [the monks] are not in heaven because they f*** the wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].\n\nFuccant is a pseudo-Latin word and in the original it is written in cipher to further disguise it.\n\nSome sources cite an alleged use from 1278 as a personal name, John le F***er, but this citation is questionable. No one has properly identified the document this name supposedly appears in and even if it is real, the name is likely a variant of fuker, a maker of cloth, fulcher, a soldier, or another similar word.\n\nThe most popular origin, however is INCORRECT is that it's beleived to have originated around the 15th century in either the English, Dutch, or low-German language.  The word's first definition appeared in 1967 when an underground newspaper called the East Village Other published this version in 1967:\n\n    "It's not commonly known that the word "f***" originated as a medical diagnostic notation on the documests of soldiers in the British Imperial Army. When a soldier reported sick and was found to have V.D., the abbreviation F.U.C.K. was stamped on his documents. It was short for "Found Under Carnal Knowledge." \n\nAnother theory suggests that in ancient England single people could not have sex unless they had consent of the king. When people wanted to have a baby, they had to get the consent of the king, and the king gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F. U. C. K. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it.\n\nHowever, other stories past down through the years tells a different side of things.  In Christianized Anglo-Saxon Britain, invading kings would require that their troops would rape the women in a common demoralization procedure. Because fornication was against religious law, the rapists needed special religious permission, from the king.  Pretty grusome stuff...\n\nSome more interesting theories about the word can be found at the sites below.
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Although I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech I find it quite disturbing that people don't have a problem with using this word in front of anybody, at any time.\nIt negates any sign of intelligence that you would not find it in your vocabulary to communicate disgust, anger and other emotions without resorting to a word that literally means fornicate or sexual intercourse. Aren't our brains a little more evolved than that?\nIf you want to use it, you have the right, but other people have the right NOT to hear it everywhere!
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LOL! I HATE 'my bad.'  I also dislike: 'good stuff,' 'narsty' (instead of nasty,) 'tummy' (instead of stomach,) 'yummy,' 'that's hot...'  There are so many more!
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It has been called the nuclear bomb of racial epithets. The filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language. A word that has an undisputed pedigree of hate. The word? \nN-I-G-G-E-R
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depends on the "polite company".  You can judge.\nIt really isn't a "bad" word, I have used it around my students many times.\nIt did start from oral sex, but has developed beyond that, much the same as the word "jerk" started from the word that means self gratification (****off) but has evolved past the vulgarity.