Re: newspeak, (...etc...)

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From: Scott Hazen Mueller
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1986 19:32

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In article <> hermann@calgary.UUCP (Michael Hermann) writes:

>
>	P.S. I've heard that fuck had its origins in an abbreviation
>		used in the old British legal system. It stood for
>		something like "Fornication U... C... K...". I've
>		not however been able to find a reference to this
>		anywhere; if someone knows of some documentation on
>		this, please let me in on it. Thanx.

I have (at home, of course) a page from one of my high-school notebooks
detailing the derivation of "fuck".  We actually spent a considerable portion
of one day's linguistics class studying etymologies... In short, and from
memory (will he drop it?), "fuck" is derived from the "root" Indo-European
"language".  The original derivations involve two root forms, "poik-os" and
"peig-yos" (I think, no flames please).  The meanings relate to plowing (as
in agriculture) and evil.  One of the related (more-or-less) modern-day words
is "fey".  Medieval forms in various Germanic tongues include "fokken" and
"fucken" (I have no idea what the word is in modern German - I could never
get my German teacher to admit what it was...)

                             \scott

If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.  Flame me, and you'll learn the meaning
of nuclear-powered urban renewal...

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Subject: Re: newspeak, (...etc...)
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