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The Poll to End All Polls
raoullefere:
--- Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 00:30 ---
--- Quote from: akronnick on 15 Sep 2009, 06:44 ---
--- Quote from: jonarus_drakus on 15 Sep 2009, 05:44 ---FUCK isnt actualy a word, its an acronim
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On the contrary, the verb to fuck comes to us from the German ficken (to fuck) with cognates in Dutch (fokken) , Norweigein, (fukka) and Swedish (fokka.)
For unlawful carnal knowledge and Fornication under consent of the King came later, and only work with modern English, which the word fuck certainly predates
and while we're being pedantic, acronym is spelled with a 'y'.
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What ARE you talking about? Fukka is not a Norwegian word. I am Norwegian, I would know. Pretty sure that Swedish word is wrong to, but I wouldn't bet on it. Where you lot would say "fuck", we use the swearword "faen" or "faen ta", derived from an old word for Satan. Some people also use the loanword "fuck", with the English pronunciation.
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Sigh. How many times must it be said: nobody, I mean nobody, (according to the last edition of the OED, this still stands) really knows where fuck came from. Actually, Heranje, English had a fair bit of Scandinavian rammed down its throat by Cnut the Great et. al., but no one has managed to tie fuck to that, either. Clearly someone should build a wayback machine to try to work this out, but no one has fucking time, nor the right set of priorities.
Heranje:
...I was not trying to say where fuck comes from. I was simply telling akronnick that fukka is not a Norwegian word, nor is anything resembling it. And I'm aware that English has a lot of loanwords from the scandinavian languages. In fact, old viking accounts of trips to England said plainly "they speak norse there". Which they probably didn't, but it was close enough that the English could speak their language and the vikings could speak their language and they both understood.
Also, hello Jeans! :) It's always fun to find Norwegians on the old interwebs. xD We are few and far between.
Watched Pot:
--- Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15 ---Also, hello Jeans! :) It's always fun to find Norwegians on the old interwebs. xD We are few and far between.
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I am not Norwegian but I did live in Trondheim for a few months. It is a great country.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15 ---...We are few and far between.
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Except, of course, in Norway.
But even there, you're not very dense!
Surgoshan:
--- Quote from: Heranje on 06 Nov 2009, 11:15 ---...I was not trying to say where fuck comes from. I was simply telling akronnick that fukka is not a Norwegian word, nor is anything resembling it.
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Then you might want to edit the wikipedia page on fuck.
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