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'Fuck the fucking fucker's fucked'?

Shove that up your blog.



And this is but one, canonical example of the extraordinary linguistic versatility of fuck. I believe there's a whole literature on it.

And while we're on the subject, I believe there's even more literature on the fact that the distinction between swear words and ordinary words is deeply embedded in our language processing, such that swear words activate special emotional pathways. You literally can't get an innocent word like blog to elicit the same audience response as fuck... unless, presumably, you train an audience of babies, from the earliest stages of language acquisition, to think of blog as some kind of terrifying swear. Which will be hard to do. Babies are more difficult to fool than you'd think.




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