Swearing

Who the fuck created it?

kill people burn shit fuck school

no really this thread sucks and so do you

It’s been around for a long time.

Take a glance at the third paragraph in this section if you want to understand how early words could have become taboo. Mentioning such a terrible thing by its most obvious name would have been rude, and most modern words for bears are euphemistic.

No idea who started it, but I do know that we all have the power to end it.

Let’s join hands and banish profanity from these lands (and chinks, specks and niggers as well).

Evidently, the idea of swearing came about during the 16th century and became popularized by William Shakespeare, but it was things like “God’s blessing on your beard” (from Love’s Labor Lost, Act 2). It was mostly blasphemy at first.

“Fuck” came about, as a verb meaning sexual intercourse, around 1475 in the poem Flen flyys (“Non sunt in coeli, quia fuccant uuiuys of heli” – “They [the friars] are not in heaven since they fuck the wives of Ely”) and in 1503 by William Dunbar in his poem “Brash of Wowing” (“Yit be his feiris he wald haue fukkit: Ye brek my hairt, my boney ane.”) which might be a bastardization of the Norwegian word for copulate (“fukka”) or perhaps Swedish (“focka”).

The languages evolved over time and words gained and lost their profane meanings. I think there will always be profanity in our lives. In the distant future, words that we don’t even know about now will be profane or words we use every day nowadays might be considered profane in the future.

Douglas Adams spoke about the most profane word in the Milky Way galaxy, Bolteh and you might be interested to know that the word that is most profane in the galaxy, according to the US version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide books and the original radio play, is “Belgium”. :wink:

Yeh fuck that shit mate get fucked.

:open_mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BlgVY_udI

Important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ99u3JvQWo

I believe the inventor of cursing was a Mr. Sruffy Nerfherder.

What the shit Max, we were just talking about you in the YLYL. WB

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

Perkele

people with stressful lives

Well, dumbfuck, to answer your motherfucking question we go back to the time of Alexander the dogfucking Great. He was putzing around trying to conquer some shit and the Egyptians were like we got dis bomb ass Cleopatra for you to bang and he’s all fuck yeah but he can’t figure out what to do about conqurering the world and shit so he fucking invents the word cunt so he knows exactly what to ask for when he gets back home from fucking up other people’s days. Bitch.

kanker

fucker gonna fuck

No reference to that silly “fornication under the consent of the king” theory yet? I am impressed.

Lol, how nice :stuck_out_tongue: I actually wonder where the Belgium mocking/hate originates from :slight_smile:
Don’t mind though, most Belgians are down-to-earth enough to laugh with Belgium jokes or make some themselves, but I wonder why other countries started seeing Belgium the way they do :slight_smile:

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