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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah. From ca40 years back. (Haven't checked though.)

JL

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:13 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> My money would be on “fuckwad”.
>
> LH
>
> > On Oct 8, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> >> Jonathan Lighter
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 7, 2021 7:24 PM
> >> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >> Subject: f------d
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> https://www.yahoo.com/news/coca-cola-heir-called-lawyer-215748482.html<
> >> https://www.yahoo.com/news/coca-cola-heir-called-lawyer-215748482.html>
> >>
> >> JL
> >>
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