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from: Robert E Starr JR
date: 2006-09-24 22:20:00
subject: Re: Can You BELIEVE This?

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Amy Guskin wrote:
> "Fuck" is a bad word because someone(s)
> arbitrarily decided it was a bad word.

Actually, it was probably /always/ at least a rude word, seeing that
the root meaning is, "to hit, to strike" (cf. the contemporary use of
"bang").

"Queynte", on the other hand, seems to have slid downhill considerably.
                                                                   
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