Question: Who is the creator that came up with these "curse" words...

[Antwon Mitchell]

We've grown accustomed to using in our vocabularies?


How long have these words existed?

 

[Sbp]

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Transit

 

[Ziggiy]

I always wondered that

 

[Marti]

This is a great fukkin question

 

[Rhapscallion Démone]

fukk isn't an Anglo-Saxon word either. Some of today's swearwords did indeed originate in Old English, including shyt, arse, turd, and the British bollocks. The f-word is of Germanic origin, related to Dutch, German, and Swedish words for "to strike" and "to move back and forth." It first appears, though, only in the 16th century, in a manuscript of the Latin orator Cicero. An anonymous monk was reading through the monastery copy of De Officiis (a guide to moral conduct) when he felt compelled to express his anger at his abbot. "O d fukkin Abbot," he scrawled in the margin of the text. We can be sure when this was because he helpfully recorded the date in another comment--1528. It is difficult to know whether the annotator intended "fukking" to mean "having sex," as in "that guy is doing too much fukking for someone who is supposed to be celibate," or whether he used it as an intensifier, to convey his extreme dismay; if the latter, it anticipates the first recorded use by more than three hundred years. Either is possible, really--John Burton, the abbot in question, was a man of questionable monastic morals. It is interesting as well that while the annotator has no problem spelling out "fukking" (except for the g), he refuses to write out a word that is most likely damned. To this monk, damnation is the real obscenity, the one that can be hinted at but not expressed in full.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3352948/amp

 

[Cave Savage]

I wonder when "fukk" became a common part of speech in the English speaking world

 

[Blankthawtz]

OP is the devil... I was watching Godfather of Harlem today and started wondering the same thing....

Like the word "fukk" can be used in so many different ways.... One of the goat curses that can describe any person place or thing in the same sentence.... Who the fukk invented it?....

 

[KyokushinKarateMan]

Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo

 

[Xerces]

Or here is a bigger one.

Who got so enraged at someone that they stuck their middle finger up, and who was the individual that got offended by it

 

[ba'al]

The word shyt goes back to a Germanic word scitte. I think ass has a Germanic origin too. bytch is old English for a female dog. I think certain words over a large course of time become more or less socially acceptable.

 

[ba'al]

The middle finger goes back to ancient greece. I made a post about it before.
Represented a phallus and was used in the same since it is now.

Or here is a bigger one.

Who got so enraged at someone that they stuck their middle finger up, and who was the individual that got offended by it

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

It's due to classism. Back in the day, the Germans invaded England, mixing their language in. Centuries later, the French invaded and took over the upper class. So it was proper and appropriate to say, for example, excrement, because it's French in origin. shyt, on the other hand, came from those lowly German peasants. French was used on official legal documents in England for centuries.

So because the French invaded England hundreds of years ago, on the other side of the planet, the FCC will fine you thousands of dollars if you say fukk on the radio.


To this, I say, fukking bollocks you right c*nts.

 

[tuckgod]

The surprising origins of your f*cking favorite swear words

 

[newworldafro]

Fornication Under the Consent of the King

High school history teacher told us the Medieval king gave permission for people to marry and that's where word originated. IDK

 

[Mindfield333]

You talking about the etymology of words. That stuff has always been interesting to me but I don’t know how accurate it is