Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not since his Last comments. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Surely he did not flee to never be heard from again?

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

Using "bloody" instead of "much" is not so bad. Just a figure of speech. You should hear Finnish teenagers to use "f_u_c_k" (finnish equivalent) instead of comma, point, semicolon and other such marks. It would be disturbing to listen if I wouldn't be depressed of the lack of imagination of young generation of my people http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

[ December 17, 2003, 14:46: Message edited by: Karibu ]

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not since his Last comments. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Maybe he just don't bloody care anymore?


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Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

Well bloody heck, you might just be bloody right. (2 times one sentance) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

I was under the impression that it was an explitave refering to the blood of christ, rather than to blue blooded nobels.

either way, its now taken as a fairly mild form of cursing.

I heard from an old college prof, that **** is an abreviation for Fornication Under Consent of the King, as at one time (forget which ruler) consent had to be obtained from the royalty, unless you wanted to risk being jailed for fornicating without a license.

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

Looks like I was wrong about how strong it was. Thanks for clearing that one up, DS.

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While it is true that in stricter times one could be subjected to legal penalties for sex outside of marriage, the acronym explanation of the word is not valid. The euphemism 'carnal knowledge' does even not exist in English until the Bible becomes commonly available in English in the 16th century because it was the translation of a Hebrew verb that meant 'to know' and also had the connotation of sexual intercourse that created that new connotation in English. William Tyndale was burned as a heretic for translating the Bible into English, btw. And then a few years later King James comissions an 'official' translation and his 'team of scholars' rips off reams of Tyndale's work... go figure.

Anyway, the word is considered a cognate of a German word 'ficken' and to have been influenced by a Latin word 'futuere'. Both of these words mean essentially the same thing -- 'to strike' -- which makes perfect sense for the action described. I think 'ficken' is actually used in German just as we use 'f-ck' too.

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hence the Italian 'fottere' which is the direct translation of our F word, and the French 'foutre' which as well as the obvious can also mean to do, to get up to, although never in polite company.

EDIT: Apologies to any sensitive francophones/ italians, (UBB filters out any instances of fkcu, but only in English) but by now there's not much shocking point trying to pretend we don't know what the drokk we're frelling talking about.

[ December 18, 2003, 08:31: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Not since his Last comments. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Maybe he just don't bloody care anymore?


http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I have, and I don't blame him if it is true.

Re: OT: Saddam Hussein Arrested
 

Well I see this topic is running wild now too!