Re: *Fuck* Acronyms!

["8772M" <8772M@email.msn.com>]

thanx Don!  curious blend of 'high' and 'low'.
is this true this was collected by Barbara Mikkelson as stated at the end
and if so where does it come from?
I'm curious about the 'problems' with the non-Germanic origins, which this
doesn't go into.
though these aren't the things they teach in school, I always understood the
origin was in the very common latin verb facere, simply 'to do' or 'make',
which in usage was as common to them as those words are in english.  and the
word could be used in as many contexts as we use them.  Interesting usages
as attested in the standard Lewis and Short Latin dictionary include (but
are certainly not limited to the following) to effect, perpetrate, excite,
commit, grant, conclude, inflict, induce, get.  it was such a common word
this dictionary takes over six columns to list its uses.  One of the last it
gives is of late latin where it states simply:
facere cum aliqua: literally 'to make with another', but they list this
usage as meaning, 'marriage' or 'matrimony'.  perhaps the common use of the
latin word in so many other contexts precludes the specific etymology of
such a word as fuck. maybe just the opposite.
something else that I think is interesting is the origin of fornicate.  as
stated in Robert K. Barnhart's Dictionary of Etymology, it  comes from latin
fornicari which comes from latin fornix.  the latter is a barrel vault or
arch, under which brothels were made. and ancient roman prostitutes would
solicit from under certain arches of certain buildings.
ahem! sorry, my curiosity got the better of me.
ned


----- Original Message -----
From: <Kuoqi@aol.com>
To: <fireparty@beefheart.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: *Fuck* Acronyms!


> Fire Party - http://www.beefheart.com/
>
> While looking into the etymology of "fuck",  I found this, and
> thought it might be of some interest to you fuckers   ;-)