Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!gmf From: gmf@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: F**k word (comment) Message-ID: <1536@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 23:17:11 EDT Article-I.D.: uvacs.1536 Posted: Wed Sep 26 23:17:11 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:35:14 EDT Lines: 15 [Strike the bug] > Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language > today is the word "FUCK". It is one of those magical words that, > just by the sound, can describe pain, pleasure, hate, and love. > "FUCK", as most words in the English language, takes its name from > the German word "friden" which means to strike. ...dvamc!ms There is an even more magical word, with much the same basic meaning (although I don't know its etymology) in Spanish: chingar. See, for example, "The Labyrinth of Solitude" by Octavio Paz. Gordon Fisher