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Title:The Etymology, Use and the Meaning of the Word Fuck
Authors:ID Horvat, Aleš (Author)
ID Plemenitaš, Katja (Mentor) More about this mentor... New window
ID Hempkin, Kirsten Margaret (Comentor)
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Language:English
Work type:Undergraduate thesis
Typology:2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Abstract:Different words have been considered as obscene, immoral, forbidden, taboo, indecent or incendiary at different times throughout our still short civilized human history. From religious profanity (such as damn) to taboo words that were considered sacred and forbidden to even think about. Not so long ago such words as leg (the proper substitute for the word was limb) and all other words for parts of the human body were forbidden and shocking. And even though it seems that today we are pretty much every day using the so called F-word or simply fuck and it is very easy to find it in most places, the word still has some kind of taboo aura around it, since it is still censored on television, some or most papers refuse to print it in its true form, but rather use some kind of substitute (fudge) or even censor it with asterisks (f**k) and the radio bleeps it out or replaces it with a modified sound when it appears in songs. But what is true is that fuck is one of the most useful, versatile, one of the most fun words with wonderfully polymorphous possibilities in the whole English language or as Peter Silverton puts it in his book Filthy English: "The beginning, the very moment of creation, the starting point for both life and fun: fuck! Or perhaps: sexual intercourse! We all do it. Well, most of us. Our ancestors did it, too – not when they were fishes perhaps but not long after ... And yet the simplest, most direct and longest serving English language word for this most ontologically essential of human acts has, for most of its life, been considered so rude, so disturbing, so nasty, so condemnably yeeeurgh that people have been arrested, tried and jailed for speaking it or writing it. The OED wouldn't even give it page room until 1972. All I can say to that is: fuck! Or: fucking hell! Or: fuck me! Or: how fucking stupid!" (Silverton, 2010, p.20) In this work I am going to discuss the etymology of the word fuck, its meaning with examples, use as nouns, verbs, idioms, interjections, verbal phrases, acronyms, abbreviations and the way society has viewed fuck and tried to mask it through censorship and alternatives in the media and about the frequency of use.
Keywords:Fuck, etymology, meaning of fuck, use of the word fuck, abbreviations and censorship.
Place of publishing:Maribor
Publisher:[A. Horvat]
Year of publishing:2016
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-59208 New window
UDC:811.111'373.6
COBISS.SI-ID:22263816 New window
NUK URN:URN:SI:UM:DK:THTIZNP2
Publication date in DKUM:13.06.2016
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Izvor, pomen in raba besede fuck
Abstract:Skozi zgodovino še zmeraj mladega obdobja civiliziranega človeštva so različne besede šteli bodisi za obscene, nemoralne, prepovedane, tabu, nedostojne ali podžigajoče, in sicer vse od religioznih preklinjanj (prekleto) do tabu besed, ki so veljale za svete in o katerih je bilo prepovedane celo razmišljati. Nedolgo nazaj je bila ena takih besed noga (ang. leg), ki jo je morala zamenjati beseda okončina, podobno pa se je zgodilo z vsemi ostalimi besedami za dele človeškega telesa, ki so veljale za prepovedane in šokantne. In čeprav se nam zdi, da danes prosto uporabljamo besedo fuck (tudi fak, fuk, jebemti) povsod, pa to besedo še zmeraj zaznamuje nekakšen tabu, kajti še vedno jo cenzurirajo na televiziji, v večini časopisov jo izpuščajo ali preoblikujejo v prijaznejšo tiskano obliko ali jo celo izpustijo v celoti, radijske postaje pa glasbo, ki vsebuje besedo fuck, preprosto cenzurirajo ali nadomestijo zvok z zvočnim učinkom. Kar zagotovo drži, pa je to, da je beseda fuck ena izmed najbolj uporabnih, raznolikih in zabavnih besed angleškega jezika s čudovitimi polimorfnimi možnostmi ali kot pravi Peter Silverton v svoji knjigi Filthy English: "Začetek, trenutek stvaritve, začetna točka tako življenja kakor tudi veselja: fuk! Ali pa spolni odnos! Vsi to počnemo. No, večina nas. Naši predniki so to počeli tudi – čeprav mogoče še ne v ribji obliki a gotovo kmalu za tem … A hkrati je najbolj enostavna, najbolj neposredna in najdlje službujoča beseda angleškega besednjaka za eno najbolj osnovnih človeških aktov, večino svojega obstanka, veljala za tako nesramno, tako zaskrbljujočo, tako neprimerno, tako zelo fuj, da so bili ljudje zaradi tega aretirani, obsojeni in zaprti, če so jo spregovorili ali zapisali. Oxfordski slovar angleškega jezika je ni vključil v svoj slovarje vse do leta 1972. Vse kar lahko rečem na to temo je: jebemti! Ali pa prekleto! Ali pa ne jebi me! Ali pa kako pofukano neumno!" (Silverton, 2010, str.20) V tem delu bom opisal etimologijo besede fuck, in njeno rabo v obliki glagola, samostalnika, idioma, medmeta akronima, kratice ter način, kako je družba gledala na besedo in jo v medijih poskušala prikriti z uporabo cenzure in zamenjavanjem z drugimi besedami, prav tako pa bom navedel tudi različne pomene besede fuck s primeri ter opisal pogostost njene rabe.
Keywords:Fuck, etimologija, pomen besede fuck, glagol, samostalnik, idiomi, medmeti, akronim, kratica, cenzura, zamenjava.


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