What the fuck?

Where are the ***s? Well, what the fuck use are ***s in a post that is itself written about one of the most spoken profanities in the English language? So, breaking from my usual norm and my status as a gentleman blogger (?), I bring you a post on 'Fuck'.

The idea struck me one Sunday(why it didn't strike me on other days is a matter of great speculation :)). Lost and lonely (and angry too. At what, I don't know now) in my own world, I changed my orkut status to 'wtf?'. Within the next hour or so people started asking me 'why the swear words?', 'what's wrong with you?', 'that's so unlike you' and so on. That got me thinking. Why is a word denoting the union of two sexes for the procurement of a new generation (not forgetting for pleasure too ;))demoted to the lower rungs of the English language? Isn't the person writing this and the one reading this a result of this self same verb (that was in the present tense a long time ago)? So, why this apartheid?

Thus armed with my ideas and ideals, I proceeded to Wikipedia for a further research on this topic. While the aforementioned questions were not answered, I came across certain interesting facts, which I'll proceed to present before you.

But before I do so, a disclaimer (or a claimer, whatever!): The material presented below is filched (plagiarised- you thought I would work so hard for a single post? You must have been kidding!)from Wikipedia. You may visit the page for a thorough reading. Also, I refuse to take responsibility for any inaccuracy in the facts provided.

Etymology:

1. Germanic origin? German 'ficken'(to fuck); Dutch 'fokken'(to strike,beget); Norwegian 'fukka'(to copulate); Swedish 'fokka'(to fuck)

2. Latin 'futuere' (to fuck). From it came the French 'foutre', Catalan 'fotre', Italian 'fottere', Romanian 'futere' and Portuguese 'foder' - all meaning 'to fuck'

3. Some suggested acronyms (believed to be false but nonetheless interesting)

They are:

*For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

*Fornication Under Carnal/Cardinal Knowledge

*Fornication Under Consent of King

*For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

*Forced Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

Interesting facts:

1. James Joyce, in his novel "Ulysses" used a sly spelling pun for the word fuck:

"If you see Kay

Tell him he may.

See you in tea,

Tell him from me"

2. The fcuk tagline is a play on the word fuck by clothing retailer 'French Connection'

3. The pronunciation of the word literally means 'jaw' in Arabic!

4. Translated into different languages:

Arabic- Yoaasher

Catalan- Fotre

Dutch- Fokken

German- Ficken

Japanese- Fakku

Korean- Ssibal

Norwegian- Fokk

Swedish- Fakk

So, thats it! I didn't get any answers but got some interesting information which I shared with you. As I look back, it seems to have become quite a long post. And one with a lot of 'fucks' in it. What the fuck???!!! :)