Child Please

• Loopulse wrote on 2012-03-08 11:23
  Someone in my grade thinks saying the F word that rhymes with maggot is okay, and that it simply means, "Annoying person". :gloom3:
• RicochetOrange wrote on 2012-03-08 11:24
  Lol.
• Leopher wrote on 2012-03-08 11:27
  Meh. The "F word that rhymes with maggot" used to mean a bundle of wood. Now it means something else. Who's to say it can't change meaning again?
• Loopulse wrote on 2012-03-08 11:28

  Quote from Leopher;800882:

  Meh. The "F word that rhymes with maggot" used to mean a bundle of wood. Now it means something else. Who's to say it can't change meaning again?

  
  
  No, it never simply meant a bundle of wood. It meant a bundle of wood that was used to burn homosexuals alive over it, simply because they were homosexuals. Therefore, by calling someone it, you're saying that they should be burned over a pile of sticks.
• Cynic wrote on 2012-03-08 11:31
  Even if someone means something different, the current and widely used definition of the "f word" is a bad one. So people should either get used to saying something else or not complain when they get scolded for using it.
• Elena wrote on 2012-03-08 11:31
  Finding another word to use isn't that difficult.
• Leopher wrote on 2012-03-08 11:31

  Quote from Loopulse;800885:

  No, it never simply meant a bundle of wood. It meant a bundle of wood that was used to burn homosexuals alive over it, simply because they were homosexuals. Therefore, by calling someone it, you're saying that they should be burned over a pile of sticks.

  
  
  Not sure about the truth of that, but my point was that words frequently change meaning. So if the F word has in fact changed meaning then while it may be insensitive to use it to mean "annoying person", it might not be totally wrong.
  
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  Quote from Elena;800891:

  Finding another word to use isn't that difficult.

  
  
  I agree. It's better not to use the word to mean "annoying person", but I don't think it's good to stubbornly hold onto meanings of words. I'm just trying to be open to the fact that the word could someday change meaning.
• Chillax wrote on 2012-03-08 11:34
  ****** (1)
  late 13c., "bundle of twigs bound up," from O.Fr. ***ot "bundle of sticks" (13c.), of uncertain origin, probably from It. ******to, dim. of V.L. *facus, from L. fascis "bundle of wood" (see fasces). Especially used for burning heretics (emblematic of this from 1550s), so that phrase fire and ****** was used to indicate "punishment of a heretic." Heretics who recanted were required to wear an embroidered figure of a ****** on their sleeve, as an emblem and reminder of what they deserved.
  
  

  Quote from Loopulse;800885:

  No, it never simply meant a bundle of wood. It meant a bundle of wood that was used to burn homosexuals alive over it, simply because they were homosexuals. Therefore, by calling someone it, you're saying that they should be burned over a pile of sticks.

  
  
  Nope.jpg
  
  http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=******
• Lolicon wrote on 2012-03-08 12:32

  Quote from Elena;800891:

  Finding another word to use isn't that difficult.

  
  
  OBVIOUSLY you don't live in California.
• Chillax wrote on 2012-03-08 12:36

  Quote from Jerain;800965:

  OBVIOUSLY you don't live in California.

  
  
  She does, and people are generally more politically correct in college than in high school.
• TA wrote on 2012-03-08 12:41
  lame
  loser
  dweeb
  geek
  nerd
  retard
  idiot
  moron
  etc.
  
  Many very good word substitutes.
• Eyrion wrote on 2012-03-08 13:01
  I think we should all start using insults like poopface, fartface and dumby, this way we don't have to keep looking up the definitions.
• TA wrote on 2012-03-08 13:26
  doodie head is a good one.
  
  Just not broccoli head.
• Elena wrote on 2012-03-08 13:30

  Quote from Jerain;800965:

  OBVIOUSLY you don't live in California.

  
  
  Actually, I do.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-03-08 13:35
  This is so awkward.
  
  I'm going to think of... "the F word"... 10 times longer now because someone said that and not the word itself.
  
  I know there's a rule against it, I'm just sayin.