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In reply to the discussion: DU Community: Do you think the word "fuck" on DU posts/subject line [View all]summer_in_TX
(2,658 posts)35. It actually is used as a proxy for violence, it seems to me.
So if we are seeing an increase (and we are), we are also seeing an increased desire for violence. If we are directing "fucks" at particular people, we are signaling we'd like to hurt them ourselves or we'd like someone else to hurt them.
It doesn't seem like no big deal to me.
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OAITW r.2.0
May 2022
OP
I don't think it has increased. Not from what I've noticed over the last 20 years.
Solly Mack
May 2022
#2
Indeed. My good friend WCGreen observed all of this. He knew me well, and was not shocked at all. ♥
CaliforniaPeggy
May 2022
#32
I don't know about DU but in society as a whole the use of the word has gone up in a straight line.
former9thward
May 2022
#3
That could realy happen.......Fuck your shit up kinda of means something.....
OAITW r.2.0
May 2022
#57
I've had a friend that used "fuck" as a noun/verb/adjective and (once, I think) as an adverb.
OAITW r.2.0
May 2022
#25
In fairness, the word "fuck" is kinda like the Swiss Army Knife of language.....
OAITW r.2.0
May 2022
#37
You, like me, have just barely figured out that you never stop learning and are amazed about
OAITW r.2.0
May 2022
#64
True. The overuse of the word has diminished its once shocking veneer.
Behind the Aegis
May 2022
#51