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[prog]

WP's article about fuck is a thing of beauty.

"Fucking fucker's fucking fucked, fuck!" ("It is broken, with additional emphasis on dismay.")

For a G-rated bonus article, see also buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

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[xymotik.livejournal.com]

You had me there for a moment: I know WP as the acronym for the Washington Post. An article on "fuck" in that newspaper truly would've been a thing of beauty.

An anthropology teacher I had at UMaine was working with students in the Netherlands, interviewing speakers of the Frisian language, "the closest existing language to English." One student asked a farmer what he did in his spare time and he responded that he liked to fuck goats. She was shocked, so she repeated the question and he gave the same answer. Her reaction was something along the lines of, "Oh, I see." Turns out what he meant was that he had a hobby of breeding goats, not doing them, because "fuck" is related to the Old English word for breeding, or for that matter (according to the WP article), the Dutch verb fokken, meaning to breed animals.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was the Washington Post too, and was impressed.

That might be a good place to link to fuckthiswebsite.com (pointer from jwz).

Also, you can get a lot more Buffalos in that sentence if you talk about American bison from a city in upstate New York.

[novalis.livejournal.com]

A lot more than ℵ₀?

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yes, about 60% more.