Wednesday, March 22, 2006

hahaz.,.,.today is a fun day. especially during literature class. teacher warn us that being a literature student, we have to be able to talk about anything in the world. from fears to sex and terror. means you have to be open-minded and not sensitive to words, or the literature teacher will ask you to get out of the class and drop the subject.

we learn about the history of some of the so-called "foul" or "bad" words. the two most interesting is about the history of the "fuck" and the "middle finger".
"f-u-c-k".,.,last time, it's not a foul word at all. in fact,.,in german it means "marry". so when a guy is proposing to a girl in germany, instead of saying "will you marry me?", he will be saying "will you fuck me?". hahaz.,.you may be laughing now but it's true. "middle finger".,.,.there's a story behind it. during the ancient europe warring period, people used bow and arrows. in order to shoot the arrow.,.u will need your middle finger to pull back the string. so the smarter group of people went to cut off their enemies' middle finger, causing them to find themselves unable to use the bow without the middle finger. so obviously the people with the middle finger won and in order to show that they are the victors, they show the middle fingers to their enemies. which also meant that showing the middle finger is "victory". how it got link to the "f-u-c-k", i dont know. but there's something which is still the same about the "middle finger" now and the ancient, it's the anger. imagine, just how many words are being called foul just because of they way people abuse it. there are actually no "foul' or "bad" words. people just make them up and think the other way when using the words.

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