The F-word

While I put on a good front of being a virtuous, innocent boy sometimes, the truth is that I have a really dirty mouth. Unsurprisingly, the F-word is one of the most common words to be found on my lips. I love it’s versatility. Last night I heard a song on Triple J that had Dad and I in stitches. Not only is it funny, but it’s interesting from a linguistic perspective. When I do my unit on functional grammar I should bring this in for the professor to play in a lecture. Anyway, I managed to track it down and download it (from the artist’s site no less) and I had to share the lyrics. If swearing isn’t your thing you may want to skip this post...

Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language is the word fuck. Out of all of the English words that begin with the letter F, fuck is the only word that is referred to as the f-word. It’s the one magical word that, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, hate, and love.

Fuck, as most words in the English language is derived from German: the word fricken, which means to strike.

In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories: as a transitive verb, for instance, John fucked Shirley; as an intransitive verb, Shirley fucks.

Its meaning’s not always sexual. It can be used as an adjective, such as John is doing all the fucking work; as part of an adverb, Shirley talks too fucking much; as an adverb enhancing an adjective, Shirley is fucking beautiful; as a noun, I don’t give a fuck; as part of a word, abso-fucken-lutely or in-fucken-credible; and as almost every word in a sentence, fuck the fucking fuckers.

As you must realise, there aren’t too many words with the versatility of fuck, as in these examples describing situation such as fraud, I got fucked at the used car lot; dismay, aw fuck it; trouble, I guess I’m really fucked now; aggression, don’t fuck with me buddy; difficulty, I don’t understand this fucking question; inquiry, who the fuck was that?; dissatisfaction, I don’t like what the fuck is going on here; incompetence, he’s a fuck off; dismissal, why don’t you go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-yourself?; I’m sure you can think of many more examples.

With all of these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word? We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech. It will identify the quality of your character immediately. Say it loudly and proudly: fuck you!

You can download the song from Dub Dentist’s site.