Guest guest Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 > My mother dispelled the novelty of cursing, by telling me the origin of the word and the fact that it was what people that were incapable of negotiating did. in other words only low people lowered themselves to curse. IN exchanges with people I don't curse, it seems that I would conceed the loss of the arguement. A desperate attempt to get somewhere verbally with another. Also no one can accuse you of being out of order. If you keep an even tone they must stay engaged because you haven't violated any rules(as on the phone with companies, when they have failed a service delivery) For some reason this explaination did not work on my girls (ravi has not to date said any bad word) My eldest daughter swears with her peers but not to me. But they think it is wildly funny and I don't. She is 22 and I still contend that experatives are the tools of people that cannot better use their cranial capacity. (I do however on occasion in order to express exasperation use foreign curse words) No one around me knows what they mean and it has become like flep my outlet for situations that have no sensible resolution. not said wi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I heard that from a high school English teacher, but he was really strange so I don't really consider him a reliable source. My mother told me this and i wanted to know if anyone else had heard of this. that the f word came from the church as "Fornication under cardinal knowledge". In other words during confession. My grandfather was a roman catholic priest so I assumed she knew anyone else know religious history? mimiCreate a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 My mother told me this and i wanted to know if anyone else had heard of this. that the f word came from the church as " Fornication under cardinal knowledge " . In other words during confession. My grandfather was a roman catholic priest so I assumed she knew anyone else know religious history? mimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 > > I heard that from a high school English teacher, but he was really strange > so I don't really consider him a reliable source. > > > hmmm but 2 references and geographical differences and the culture difference does lend credence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 " My mother told me this and i wanted to know if anyone else had heard of this. that the f word came from the church as " Fornication under cardinal knowledge " . In other words during confession. My grandfather was a roman catholic priest so I assumed she knew anyone else know religious history? " Nope. I learned this back in college. The word is an Old English word that is akin to the word " rut " today. It was a word used to describe cattle and stock mating with one another. There were other, more polite terms used to describe human intercourse. Animal intercourse was seen to be much more brutal and much more carnal, and so a verb was given to describe that specific act. The word came into its present usage a long time ago when people applied the mating term for when cattle bred to blatantly immoral sex. Administrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 " I heard that from a high school English teacher, but he was really strange so I don't really consider him a reliable source. " I am sure some Catholics tried to invent an explanation for it that stuck, but it is not true. Administrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 > > " My mother told me this and i wanted to know if anyone else had heard of > this. that the f word came from the church as " Fornication under > cardinal knowledge " . In other words during confession. My grandfather > was a roman catholic priest so I assumed she knew anyone else know > religious history? " > > Nope. > > I learned this back in college. The word is an Old English word that is > akin to the word " rut " today. It was a word used to describe cattle and > stock mating with one another. > > There were other, more polite terms used to describe human intercourse. > > Animal intercourse was seen to be much more brutal and much more > carnal, and so a verb was given to describe that specific act. > > The word came into its present usage a long time ago when people > applied the mating term for when cattle bred to blatantly immoral sex. > > > Administrator > ohhhh, being given a definition is what kept me from using the word. But that one would have kept me from it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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