[Ads-l] f------d

[Laurence Horn]

My money would be on “fuckwad”.

LH

> On Oct 8, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I find the decision to elide all but the first and last letters interesting.
> 
> I would use f---tard to differentiate from f---head, which I expect is
> older.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2021, 11:16 PM Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:
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>> Does “fucktard” really only go back to the 1990s?  I didn’t check HDAS or
>> The F-Word, but Green has it only as early as 1994.  It feels like I’ve
>> heard it a lot longer than that.
>> 
>> It’s pretty striking to see “fucktard” spelled out right in the headline,
>> in a story that elides “faggot” as “f—t.”  Since “-tard” obviously derives
>> from “retarded,” the case for elision would seem at least equally as
>> strong.  On the other hand, I’m not sure I would know what to make of a
>> sentence in a news story that someone was called a “f------d.”
>> 
>> 
>> John Baker
>> 
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>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
>> Jonathan Lighter
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>> Subject: f------d
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>> JL
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