I’m in awe with this word. It defines reality to its core. The universality of this word is even far-reaching than its language. It’s equal for all, not rationalized for specifics. Even grammar of the English language is unable to bracket the famous curse; adverb, verb, noun, adjective….. You just cannot objectify the word and yet its meanings pertain to subjectivity…simple and real.
"The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]." (quoted from:The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
The rebellious nature of the word is appallingly obvious. If you bothered to go through the word history the blokes of the time tried to hide it within cryptograms and codes and what not. Yet it surfaced out magnificently. Repression always leads to aggressive outrage. We don’t need inspiring people to teach us that… a meager vulgar slang is enough.
No matter how tabooed it may be… you have to agree… it is fucking genius!
