Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Origin of that strongest of words Message-ID: <6053@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 18:39:13 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.6053 Posted: Sat Oct 6 18:39:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:26:18 EDT References: <1536@uvacs.UUCP> <6046@mcvax.UUCP> <309@haring.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 22 (:--:) >From jaap@haring.UUCP Wed Oct 3 05:36:36 1984 >One thing that complicates the theory is that the current slang >word for sexual intercourse is "neuken", and was in that time an >accepted word. It turned into slang later. Well, it seems we have here another example of a word in one language finding its way into another. Most of you must have seen all the articles about "nuking" newsgroups. Interesting of course is that the aftereffects of the actions described by the two words are quite the opposite. Given the subject and the in-depth theories unfolded about the origin of the word "fuck" I wonder how this ever got into a net.jokes subgroup. I think this discussion should be moved to the newsgroups where it belongs: net.rec (net.rec.nude?) and net.religion.... BTW I wonder why so many Americans write freely about "nuking" whilst on the other hand in their infinite "decency" they write about "f**king"??? (Maybe THIS belongs in net.politics...) -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet