i have not read this whole thread, but the most versatile word i can't say here....starts with "f" and rhymes with "duck". just think of all the applications.
if i get suspended from this site, i hope it doesn't last through basketball season. lol
i have not read this whole thread, but the most versatile word i can't say here....starts with "f" and rhymes with "duck". just think of all the applications.
if i get suspended from this site, i hope it doesn't last through basketball season. lol
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
The F-word does not usually bother me, as it seems to be used frequently in informal speech these days. I did attend a talk by director Kevin Smith (Clerks) a few years ago and he could not utter a sentence without using the F-word (sometimes multiple times per sentence). It became tiring and annoying.
In summary, not a word I dislike or really like. YMMV.
Along these lines, the wife and I are watching Deadwood finally. There's a particular compound expletive which is used nonstop. The first several episodes, I found it incredibly distracting. Then I found it amusing for a few episodes. Now, it is just another feature of the way these characters speak to each other.
On a side note, the dialogue in that show is simply amazing. It makes me wonder if men and women actually used such elevated language with one another. The idiot mayor in particular seems to speak in a dialect far above his station in life. None of the characters seem particularly well educated. Is this something that is reflected in writing of that era? Or is it dramatic license taken by HBO?
akimbo
I've always been fascinated by this word. Incredibly descriptive, but really makes no sense. How did it get into our language?
I did a search of the word to make sure it hadn't been brought up before in this thread, and it had never even been used on the entire board! Well, at least I fixed one thing today. And it's only 9 in the morning.
Apparently it's Middle English in origin, from "in kene bowe," or at a keen angle (bow). Not as exotic an origin as I would have thought.
As for the F word, I really like it and almost certainly overuse it.
and i didn't get f'ing suspended from DBR....at least not yet lol
I saw this word in print over the weekend. Hang thought about it, heard it, it seem it in a long time.
craven
What an awesome word! I've got to try to get this into a conversation sometime soon.
What do you get when you cross a cranberry with a raven? Well, besides a craven?
Man, if your Mom made you wear that color when you were a baby, and you're still wearing it, it's time to grow up!