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From: tim@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: versatile word (ROT 13) - offensive to  (ROT13)
Message-ID: <567@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 02:55:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 02:55:27 1985
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In article <1170@vax1.fluke.UUCP> suz@fluke.UUCP (Suzanne Jurgensen) writes:
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>	Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language
>today is the word "fuck."  It is the one magical word that, just by its
>sound, can describe pain, pleasure, hate, and love.  Fuck, as most words in
>the English language takes its name from the german word "fricken" which
>means to "stick."

That's not what *I* heared... In my dictionary, it said that the
word 'fuck' came from german 'ficken', meaning 'to hit.'  That would
make more sense, given the way I hear it used by people.

			- Tim

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