the oldest surviving slang

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 3 23:33:46 UTC 2002


At 6:49 PM -0400 7/3/02, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 7/3/02 9:16:07 AM, JMB at STRADLEY.COM writes:
>
><< "Fuck," in the sexual sense, has no formal equivalent >>
>
>as a verb, the formal equivalent is "have sexual intercourse with"

Not in "s/he really loves to have sexual intercourse with"

>as a noun, the formal equivalent is "sexual intercourse"

Not in "s/he's a good (talented, enthusiastic...) sexual intercourse"
or "that poor dumb sexual intercourse never knew what hit him/her"

Demand "fuck"; accept no substitutions!



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