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I submit to you that the "F" word is seen as crass and a dirty word, not because of any intrinsic meaning but, because the word is cheesy or broken.

It is just too versatile for people to deal with. It's like Obliterators, Lash of Submission, Nob Bikers, Land Raiders and Eldrad all rolled into one. It's just way too good. A cut far above the rest.

Here is a link to a video that makes sense but I must warn, it contains this word in it's uncensored abuse as it effortlessly pummels the English language to a pulp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA578yQ5g&feature=PlayList&p=8877344B6FE69DAF&index=0

I enjoy the use of the "F" word in my everyday life. I especially enjoy using it when someone does something so stupid that it deserves a "What the Feth?".

I get in trouble for using it all the time. feth 'em!!!

It is a lazy word. A sound and nothing more. We say it when we're young because we want to sound cool (like smoking and drugs) except saying the F word is far easier and then we're stuck with it. Thanks to the Army it will probably always be a part of my vocabulary when I'm upset.

Ultimately, if you build your vocabulary, you don't have to say, "feth" and "gak" simply because you have no other adjective or descriptor known to you. Of course, Frick, friggin and crap are basically the same thing. Lazy language that has multiple meanings simply because we choose to not look up the right word or way to express what we're trying to get across.

Do you know what I'm fething saying about the gak we spew out of our mouths?

Its just a word. We put the evil on it.

stupid auto-fething-filter and its fething uselessness

"It will identify the quality of your character immediatley."

priceless

I agree completely with the OP and that video.

It's a great word.

Feth you, you fething feth!

Adjective, Noun and Verb in one sentence!

But if you feel your swearing just isn't up to scratch, and might be stagnating, go buy a Profanisaurus Magna Farta. Genius levels of swearies in that one.

feth isn't bad, hell not even witch does it for me any more.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/words-can-ease-pain-i-swear-20090712-dhfi.html

SWEARING can lessen the feeling of physical pain, scientists have discovered.
Volunteers withstood pain for longer when they swore than when they used anodyne words, in a study at Keele University in the English Midlands.

Interesting article, basically implies that Curse words arose in almost every language as a basis for expressing, and thereby reducing physical pain. Stub your toe at home alone, swear and feel better. Stub your toe at night when your GF is sleeping, you keep the noise in and the pain is unbearable!

So, if it is over used, and ceases to have this mental 'taboo', it ceases to have effectiveness. Much like 'Damn' - it used to be a shocking word (aka Red's "Quite frankly, I dont give a damn" in Gone with the Wind), but today it has no taboo, and accordingly no impact.

What am i saying - I dont really know. I just knew this reasearch came out this week (they were talking about it on JJJ), and thought it would be worth posting.

So you and the you rode in on!

I was hoping we were gonna discuss the cooking show by Gordon Ramsey also titled The "F" Word.

The "F" stands for Food.

*sadface*

darkkt wrote:http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/words-can-ease-pain-i-swear-20090712-dhfi.html

SWEARING can lessen the feeling of physical pain, scientists have discovered.
Volunteers withstood pain for longer when they swore than when they used anodyne words, in a study at Keele University in the English Midlands.

Interesting article, basically implies that Curse words arose in almost every language as a basis for expressing, and thereby reducing physical pain. Stub your toe at home alone, swear and feel better. Stub your toe at night when your GF is sleeping, you keep the noise in and the pain is unbearable!

So, if it is over used, and ceases to have this mental 'taboo', it ceases to have effectiveness. Much like 'Damn' - it used to be a shocking word (aka Red's "Quite frankly, I dont give a damn" in Gone with the Wind), but today it has no taboo, and accordingly no impact....

Interesting but I am sure that a shout of nonsensical syllables has the exact same effect. (Which, in turn, could become a new swear word)

S#!T is my favorite, however as its meaning can actually be applied to so much.

"What a pile of gak!" "What is this gak?" "Don't give me any of your gak." "I'm gonna go take a gak." Don't take a gak, leave a gak. I only have four left and the weekend is coming up." "Aw gak." "The gak is gonna hit the fan."

GoFenris wrote:It is a lazy word. A sound and nothing more.

All words are just sounds and nothing more. See linguistics...try and figure out why we use any word to signify anything, then when the smoke starts pouring out of your ears, stop thinking about it.

I hate how this forum turns feth into feth.

Cairnius wrote:

GoFenris wrote:It is a lazy word. A sound and nothing more.

All words are just sounds and nothing more. See linguistics...try and figure out why we use any word to signify anything, then when the smoke starts pouring out of your ears, stop thinking about it.

I was referring specifically to the fact that in most cases feth is used with no real meaning.

I think the feth into feth thing is kind of funny! I do think it is comical that on IGN (a huge commercial video game/entertainment site) you can write just about any fething bullgak you want and it stays yet that site probably has kids in the majority but here kids (<18) are in the minority but we can't let loose a string of colorful colloquialisms.

GoFenris wrote:

Cairnius wrote:

GoFenris wrote:It is a lazy word. A sound and nothing more.

All words are just sounds and nothing more. See linguistics...try and figure out why we use any word to signify anything, then when the smoke starts pouring out of your ears, stop thinking about it.

I was referring specifically to the fact that in most cases feth is used with no real meaning.

I think the feth into feth thing is kind of funny! I do think it is comical that on IGN (a huge commercial video game/entertainment site) you can write just about any fething bullgak you want and it stays yet that site probably has kids in the majority but here kids (<18) are in the minority but we can't let loose a string of colorful colloquialisms.

Not only that, but kids (teens especially) say/write feth just as much as adults. And the kids that don't are too young to know what it means anyway.

Beam us up Scotty, TO THE NUTS & BOLTS FORUM!!!!!

@GoFenris

Your just upset it's so good. Your trying to use logic to put it on a lower level, it's really top tier. You can't fight it.

Cursing is just fething punctuation, melon-fethers.

Typeline wrote:@GoFenris

Your just upset it's so good. Your trying to use logic to put it on a lower level, it's really top tier. You can't fight it.