fvck (UNCLASSIFIED)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Sep 12 00:30:54 UTC 2009


At 3:20 PM -0400 9/11/09, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Is there a term for a euphemism that exists only in writing? This isn't like
>"urinate" for "piss", or for that matter "the F-word" for "'fuck'"; but
>neither is it a partial or total redaction like "f***" or "What the !%#@?"
>
>m a m

A bit more like the taboo avoidance (not exactly euphemism) in G-d...

LH

>
>On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
>Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
>
>>  Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
>>  Caveats: NONE
>>
>>  Probably too late for the new edition of Jesse's "The F Word", but . . .
>>
>>  I just read somewhere that "fvck" is a common euphemism for "fuck" at
>>  MIT, likely resulting from the Latinate spelling on the neoclassical
>>  buildings.
>>
>>  Here are a couple of examples:
>>
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