Like, in real life, execute doesn’t mean to start, it means to stop…

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Example : at one point it was seen as obscene to talk about copulation, coit and fornication. So, for the houses where the king approved fornication, they simply created a modest acronym F.U.C.K. (short for : Fornication Under King’s Consent) that later became itself seen as (of course) obscene.

    I believe that theory has been debunked and ‘fuck’ is from low German, meaning ‘to strike’.

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      17 hours ago

      Next you’ll tell me “kangaroo” isn’t an aboriginal word for “I don’t understand.”

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      18 hours ago

      Maybe you are right about the origin of fuck. Yet, I do believe language tend to be modified over time in the way I (tried to) described above.