As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, fuck is often not used in its original, literal meaning. Rather, it is an intensifier expressing nothing but the speaker's strong emotional involvement (often negatively, but not necessarily: e.g. "fucking good" is a rude way of saying "very good"). In the book Practical English Usage, the two meanings of the word are clearly illustrated by juxtaposing the sentences:
What are you doing fucking in my bed?
What are you fucking doing in my bed?
What the fuck are you doing in my bed?
The first sentence means "Why are you copulating in my bed?", while the second and third merely emphasizes the sentence "What are you doing in my bed?". The second usage is more common than the first, and the third is even more common then the second.
"Fuck you!" expresses anger, and thus seems to be more related to "I am so angry at you, I am going to rape you to punish you" than to "I would like to lovingly have sexual intercourse with you". It also may be related to "fuck off," which seems to be a reference to masturbation, where it might originally have been a vulgar way of saying "quit bugging me and go back to masturbating or whatever stupid stuff you usually do." It may also express indifference with respect to the well-being of another person or of other people in general, for example reacting to a request, or the imposing of rules.
Another use of the word fuck is as a replacement for the word God in profane statements. For example "Fuck knows" means something like "I don't know, and neither is anyone ever likely to know".
Linguistics
Verb
The word can be used as a verb transitively:
He fucked her.
Or intransitively:
They fucked all night.
Noun
As a noun:
He is a real fuck.
What the fuck?!
Interjection
The interjection fuck is frequently used to express shock, discontent and anger in general.
Fuck! A punctured tire!
Present participle
The present participle fucking (or fuckin' ) is commonly used to intensify a verb or noun. As described earlier, it is used more negatively than positively.
My fucking boss gave me tons of fucking work to do.
She is fucking beautiful.
In addition, the present participle is sometimes inserted in the middle of a word as an intensifier, a process known as expletive infixation. For example:
That was abso-fuckin-lutely cool!
Ex-fuckin-cuse me!
In-fuckin-credible
Portmanteau
Prepended to another word, the sound "f" is sometimes used to evoke the entire expletive, with an intensifying sense. (See portmanteau.)
That's fugly (fucking ugly).
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Sunday, May 16, 2004
whee. i made a launcher. all by myself. from my own pocket. and it works! Muahahahaha! it's mine!!! not the school's...yes it's mine!!! now i can launcher my own bottle rockets all by myself! without other's permission!
oh yar... have to mention the "learning journey" to bugis. at first i just wanted to go to a hardware shop "a short walk" from our school to buy an O-ring[something supposedly very common](first you either turn left or turn right, then you walk straight for 15 minutes). didnt intend to go to bugis, but since jimr was so enthusiastic about it, and also i forgot how to go to the hardware shop, and also jimr assured me that the place would sell O-rings("i will bang their heads if they don't"), and also he mentioned exciting stuff(forgot, but certainly sounds very exciting), so i went.
truly it was a place full of fun junk and boy, it had things like tinderbox, sledgehammer, 3 feet long cutters(i wonder what it cannot cut), coffins, a protection mask for acetyl-oxy-welding and *piles*. all sorts of shit(saw methanol too, poisonous, volatile and burns cleanly, very tempted to buy until jimr told me that some chemicals require IC)
jimr bought a can of higly compressed butane, and when released froze anything. produced frost on the nozzle when pressed for some 3 seconds.(good follow-up to deep-heat and chilli. chilli his nipples then freeze it off. or deep heat someone's balls then freeze his **** off)
basically, the bugis place had everything. everything but O-rings. wow.
so we went back to bishan and he followed me to a hardware in god-knows-where. that place wasn't impressive. was about less than 10% of the size of the shop he showed me. but it sold O-rings. (jimr was like saying "du-lan" all the way back to school)
ali is a cruel person. he superglues and araldites ants. one ant would never have its body leave a tree leaf.
oh yes. rockets are fun. do not underestimate a 1.5 foot launcher or a 1 foot rocket. founders day you all shall see.
exeunt.
oh yar... have to mention the "learning journey" to bugis. at first i just wanted to go to a hardware shop "a short walk" from our school to buy an O-ring[something supposedly very common](first you either turn left or turn right, then you walk straight for 15 minutes). didnt intend to go to bugis, but since jimr was so enthusiastic about it, and also i forgot how to go to the hardware shop, and also jimr assured me that the place would sell O-rings("i will bang their heads if they don't"), and also he mentioned exciting stuff(forgot, but certainly sounds very exciting), so i went.
truly it was a place full of fun junk and boy, it had things like tinderbox, sledgehammer, 3 feet long cutters(i wonder what it cannot cut), coffins, a protection mask for acetyl-oxy-welding and *piles*. all sorts of shit(saw methanol too, poisonous, volatile and burns cleanly, very tempted to buy until jimr told me that some chemicals require IC)
jimr bought a can of higly compressed butane, and when released froze anything. produced frost on the nozzle when pressed for some 3 seconds.(good follow-up to deep-heat and chilli. chilli his nipples then freeze it off. or deep heat someone's balls then freeze his **** off)
basically, the bugis place had everything. everything but O-rings. wow.
so we went back to bishan and he followed me to a hardware in god-knows-where. that place wasn't impressive. was about less than 10% of the size of the shop he showed me. but it sold O-rings. (jimr was like saying "du-lan" all the way back to school)
ali is a cruel person. he superglues and araldites ants. one ant would never have its body leave a tree leaf.
oh yes. rockets are fun. do not underestimate a 1.5 foot launcher or a 1 foot rocket. founders day you all shall see.
exeunt.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Monday, May 10, 2004
alwyn told me that there was training on saturday.
i wondered.
then i asked garry. he said there was.
so i came on saturday, and saw only sec 4s.
Mr tan asked me why i came.
shock.
then sec ones came too.
mr tan advised them to go home because his training plan was for the older boys and (direct quote)"YOU WILL DIEEE!"
in greater shock, and apprehension, considering that our training plan is already 'quite' tiring.
training started at 10, but came at 9.
after stoning for half an hour tan told us to do uchikomi while waiting for the jcs, and to warm up.
30 minutes just to do uchikomi. translates to 30 minutes to correct my entry.
then watched video for 40 minutes. warm-up effect from the uchikomi gone.
training was somehow felt more slack than usual. felt like i did half the amt of uchikomi than usual. (no, I didn't slack)
maybe thats because my seoi nage uchikomi is done on darius instead of jingwen. oh boy, darius... if i did uchimata uchikomi my arms would break. (it is good to train wif challenging ppl like lincoln and jingwen...good in the long run)
didn't feel any more tired than usual. i believe that the jcs feel that way too.
gained some things. shall not blame alwyn. partly(or mostly ^-^ )because i met someone whom i longed to meet.
i wondered.
then i asked garry. he said there was.
so i came on saturday, and saw only sec 4s.
Mr tan asked me why i came.
shock.
then sec ones came too.
mr tan advised them to go home because his training plan was for the older boys and (direct quote)"YOU WILL DIEEE!"
in greater shock, and apprehension, considering that our training plan is already 'quite' tiring.
training started at 10, but came at 9.
after stoning for half an hour tan told us to do uchikomi while waiting for the jcs, and to warm up.
30 minutes just to do uchikomi. translates to 30 minutes to correct my entry.
then watched video for 40 minutes. warm-up effect from the uchikomi gone.
training was somehow felt more slack than usual. felt like i did half the amt of uchikomi than usual. (no, I didn't slack)
maybe thats because my seoi nage uchikomi is done on darius instead of jingwen. oh boy, darius... if i did uchimata uchikomi my arms would break. (it is good to train wif challenging ppl like lincoln and jingwen...good in the long run)
didn't feel any more tired than usual. i believe that the jcs feel that way too.
gained some things. shall not blame alwyn. partly(or mostly ^-^ )because i met someone whom i longed to meet.
Monday, May 03, 2004
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